Philipp Schepmann

Accompany Dick Mol, the world-famous expert on mammoths, as he traces the original mammoths back to Namibia, trawls the bottom of the North Sea for mammoth fossils and, with the help of gold-diggers in northern Canada, digs up perfectly preserved mammoth bones from the permafrost.

Join the quirkiest hoarders in the animal kingdom and discover how squirrels manage to survive and thrive in extraordinarily diverse habitats.

No animal has a greater grasp of deception than the praying mantis. Wolves in sheeps clothing, they are the most feared predators in the insect world.

The Wupper - a popular river in Germany and one of the greatest anomalies of all time. As one of Germany's beauties, the river was the gem of German landscape. But with industrialization it became the country's hardest working river and like everything that has been overworked, it lost it magnificence and charm.