Name: Nick Baker's Weird Creatures: Axolotl
Uploaded: 2010-02-24T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 48 min
Description: Mexico City might seem an unlikely place to find one of nature's most extraordinary amphibians; the Axolotl, an almost magical salamander that Nick Baker has kept in captivity for two decades.

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Nick heads to cowboy country, southeast Arizona, in search of the horned lizard – a reptile with an amazing trick up its spiny sleeve.

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Blood Squirting Lizard

A blood-sucking vampire lives in the waters of the Amazon, one with a macabre reputation. The candiru is a tiny catfish that has been known to swim up the human urethra.

Amazonian Vampire Fish

Nick goes looking for the world's smallest armadillo, it lives in the sandy dunes of Western Argentina, and is very rarely seen even by those who live there.

Pink Fairy Armadillo

Nick takes on his biggest frogging challenge yet – a giant frog that lives underwater in one of the highest lakes in the world – Lake Titicaca. This is Nick's most dangerous Weird Creatures mission.

Saggy Skinned Frog

Gharial are about the most endangered, species of crocodile on earth. Nick sets out to discover how their body design works for them, and what humans are doing to save the Gharial from extinction.

Croc From Mars

A monster lurks just off the holiday beaches of Britain's west coast. The basking shark is the second biggest fish in the sea, and the UK is one of the best places to see them.

Basking Shark

In the boreal forest of Manitoba, Canada, Nick goes trapping for the fastest nose in natural history – the Star-nosed Mole.

Star-Nosed Mole

Pluto

Mexico City might seem an unlikely place to find one of nature's most extraordinary amphibians; the Axolotl, an almost magical salamander that Nick Baker has kept in captivity for two decades.

Axolotl

In the warm waters of South Australia Nick meets a marine animal with a jewel-like body that resembles a brilliant plastic toy rather than a fish; the Leafy Sea Dragon.

Leafy Sea Dragon

Nick Baker is on a road trip along Mexico's Highway Number 1 running the length of the weird and wonderful Baja peninsula. His aim- to track down Bipes biporus, aka the Five-toed Worm Lizard.

Worm Lizard

Nick travels to Australia's Red Centre on the trail of one of the weirdest desert diggers, the Marsupial Mole. To Nick's astonishment he discovers that what is known about this mole is very little.

Marsupial Mole

Nick travels to the depths of the Bornean jungle to find the only poisonous primate in the world; the Slow Loris. It looks like a cuddly toy, but it carries a poison that can prove fatal.

Slow Loris

The horseshoe crab has been around for nearly half a billion years, making it one of the oldest creatures on the planet. Nick wants to find out what the living fossil has been doing right for so long.

Horseshoe Crab

Luck is on Nick's side as he goes in search of the awkward middle child of anteaters, the tamandua. Borrowing characteristics from its brothers, the tamandua appears to have an identity crisis.

Giant Anteater

Nicks heads to a group of desert islands in Panama where strange things have been happening to the animals. He hangs out with a pygmy sloth and discovers a species of frog with an identity crisis.

Pygmy Sloth

Nick Baker travels the globe in search of some of the weirdest, ugliest, and downright most bizarre animals that grace the planet - the unsung heroes of evolutionary biology.

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