Crazy Monster

2017 • Smithsonian Channel
5.0
4 reviews
TV-PG
Rating
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Spiders
1/4/17
Season-only
Meet a family of hairy, scary eight-legged beasts of all shapes and sizes. This bizarre creature showcase is as fascinating as it is frightening, featuring spiders that walk on water, cartwheel across deserts, shoot hairs at predators, and deliver venom about 15 times deadlier than a rattlesnake's. Join us as we comb the planet's jungles, deserts, treetops, and ponds to bring you the biggest, ugliest, deadliest spiders alive.
2 Bats
1/11/17
Season-only
Enter nature's house of horrors and witness a weird and wonderful collection of bats. We've gathered winged beasts from around the globe, from acrobats to bloodsuckers to scorpion hunters and beyond, and detail how they thrive, not only in underground caves but also in arid deserts and tropical jungles. We reveal how 50 million years have equipped these flying mammals with some bizarre adaptations, including ultrasonic hearing, oddly long tongues, and more.
3 Diggers
1/18/17
Season-only
They live all around the world – and underground. They are crazy monster diggers, strange burrowers of all shapes and sizes, who have been crawling, puncturing, and biting their way through the earth for millions of years. Join us as we travel the globe, from the dry savanna to the scrubby Australian outback to the swamps of Central America as we explore a collection of crazy diggers, including the most powerful digger on the face of the planet.
4 Gulpers
1/25/17
Season-only
Step right up and witness a collection of real bigmouths, a gathering of strange creatures with a real appetite for destruction. Join us as we look to the skies, seas, and land to present weird and wonderful animals that prefer to swallow their food whole. From beasts that use their mouths as traps to botanical death pits to one giant with a mouth so large it can kill millions in one bite, you better keep your eye on this group of gulping creatures before they swallow you whole.
5 Fangs
2/1/17
Season-only
Witness the planet's most teeth-chattering fang-bearing creatures. See how millions of years of evolution have produced a variety of weird and wonderful canine contraptions used to do much more than simply chew. We'll span the globe and showcase beasts with choppers that can crush bone, dagger-like tusks that can fight off the competition, a beak that can snap off your finger, and the monster fangs that rule them all: two-inch-long hypodermic needles that carry a lethal dose of poison.
6 Bugs
2/8/17
Season-only
Bugs outnumber humans 200 million to one, making them the biggest family of animals on Earth. And we've gathered the most peculiar of them all, each with remarkable adaptations that help them survive and thrive in the wild. Take an up-close look at these strange beasts as we scour the planet's forests, deserts, and swamps to reveal a tiny sand monster that turns its victims into soup, a beetle that shoots molten hot liquid, a massive wasp that kills about 40 people a year, and more.
7 Sea Creatures
2/15/17
Season-only
Deep beneath the sea, bizarre and remarkable creatures lurk, featuring a collection of extreme adaptations developed over 500 million years of evolution. Witness a strange showcase of fish, from crushing jaws to glowing eyelids to gaping maws, and get an up-close look at some of the weirdest, fastest, wildest, and mightiest creatures in the watery underworld. It's a glimpse of nature like you've never seen before, and we're giving you a front row seat.
8 Frogs
10/29/14
Mutants armed with regenerative powers. Giants lurking in underground tombs. Prehistoric creatures with a taste for dinosaurs. These are not horror movie monsters. They're the world's wildest frogs. Join us as we explore this family of freaks and their weird and wonderful abilities, from bone claws to glass skin to lethal poisons. You'll see the invisible, hairy, and disfigured creatures of the amphibian world. Then you'll meet the prehistoric devil frog, a carnivorous, pit bull-sized beast that lunched on dinosaurs.

About this show

Enter a world filled with the most spectacular freaks of nature on the planet. Here you will find a weird and wonderful collection of leaping spiders, snot-casting fish, blood-sucking bats, flesh-boring bugs, and other bizarre creatures occupying our land, sea, and sky. Join us as we celebrate oddities of all shapes, sizes, and species, giving an up-close view of them in their natural habitat, and revealing how these misfits of nature have developed their strange adaptations over tens of millions of years.

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