When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

Big animals are scary. But what if they were even bigger? Sharks the size of ships, apes that could scale buildings, rats of unusual size - not only are they frightening to think about, they were once ...

It’s not easy being big. That’s the conclusion executive producer Tom Hugh-Jones (“Planet Earth II,” “Night on Earth”) and producer Bill Markham (“Wildest Latin America,” “Animal”) came to when ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

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How do snakes manage to swallow and digest animals that are bigger than their heads? Unlike humans and many other animals, snakes don’t chew their food. They swallow their prey whole, which can ...