Extreme Snakes

Australia and Africa are both diverse, challenging and extreme environments. Vast continents with a wide range of habitats, and a multitude of different reptile species uniquely adapted to them. Snakes have pushed the limits of evolution to survive on each of these landmasses, adapting into some of the most effective, specialised and venomous predators on the planet.

In both these one hour natural history specials, we explore the innovative and highly flexible ways that snakes survive in the extreme environments of Australia and Africa. Along the way we examine longest, strongest, heaviest, deadliest and most venomous snakes, across the 2 continents that shaped them. We reveal new discoveries relating to constriction and metabolism, get up close and personal with the secrets of serpentine seduction, delve into the complexity of venom, new findings in snake locomotion, recent revelations about how constriction kills and unpack startling new revelations that may change our understanding of the processes of evolution forever. (Viasat)