Nature

Encountering Sea Monsters

Season 23, Episode 4 of 7

Science fiction writers have come up with strange depictions of alien life, but nothing to rival creatures with a beak like a parrot, no bones, three hearts, blue blood, skin that can change colors and arms growing out of lips. Scientists call them cephalopods (squid and octopus); they inhabit a world where cannibalism is a daily practice, mating can involve amputation, trickery is rife and size means everything - and nothing. Viewers follow a cameraman into the abyss and share his adventures with the planet's most cryptic and clever monsters.

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
6/28/2009
7 p.m.
6/29/2009
2 a.m.
7/1/2009
4 a.m.
7/5/2009
noon
7/27/2009
2 p.m.
7/28/2009
4 a.m.
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