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Reptiles, amphibians and fishes

  • Encyclopaedia of life
    Encyclopedia of Life - 17/05/2007 (video)

    Graham Higley talks about the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life project that will create a free online encyclopaedia of all the 1.8 million living species on Earth.

  • Specimens in a jar
    Desert island specimens - 07/10/2003 (video)

    Find out which three of the Museum’s 70 million specimens fish curator Ollie Crimmen finds particularly fascinating.

  • Dangerous fishes
    Dangerous fishes - 25/05/2003 (video)

    When it comes to dangerous fish, sharks are just a drop in the ocean. Explore the lesser-known perils of the world’s waters.

  • Landed: 8ft missing sturgeon
    Landed: 8ft missing sturgeon - 30/06/2004 (video)

    Join Museum fish curator, Oliver Crimmen, to see the Museum's latest acquisition, an eight-foot sturgeon, and find out why it is such an important catch.

  • Snake head
    Reptile predators and scavengers - 01/08/2003 (video)

    Explore some of the incredible feeding behaviours of modern reptiles. How do today’s reptiles compare with dinosaurs?

  • Tadpoles
    Tadpoles - 27/09/2003 (video)

    Takes a look at the world's tadpoles. How do they survive and how do they make the radical leap into fully grown frogs and toads?

  • Fishes and climate change
    Fishes and climate change - 11/03/2006 (video)

    Many unlikely visitors reach our shores each year. See the first ever British barracuda, caught off the UK, in a live link-up to the Tank Room.

  • Why fishes swim fast
    Why fishes swim fast - 19/08/2004 (video)

    Which fish are the fastest and why? Museum fish curators Ollie Crimmen and James Maclaine discuss the physiology of speed.

  • The Confusing Frog
    The Confusing Frog - 22/01/2005 (video)

    Join Museum zoologist Barry Clark to uncover the ambiguous amphibian that's driving the experts hopping mad.

  • Frog on a plant
    Skin poisons in frogs - 19/02/2005 (video)

    Museum scientist Barry Clarke looks at a variety of frog poisons and their differing effects on predators.

  • Deep sea fish
    The warped world of deep-sea fish - 31/05/2004 (video)

    Fish curator James Maclaine examines some of the more bizarre fish specimens that have come from the various depths of the ocean.

  • Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2006
    Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2006 - 30/04/2006 (video)

    Join Ivvet Modinou and the Nature Live team as they bring you all the action from the 2006 festival

  • Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2005
    Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2005 - 09/04/2005 (video)

    Join us at the 2005 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival in Dorset, a celebration of remarkable remains and fossil folklore.

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