1 Season
3 Episode
Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature - Season 1 Episode 1 Super-Bodies
Richard Hammond reveals secret animal abilities from the natural world, and discovers how those same animals have inspired a series of unlikely human inventions at the very frontiers of science. Unfortunately for Hammond, that journey will involve diving to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, driving a car pursued by geese, and leaping 500 metres off a South African cliff. In this first episode, he discovers how the Cape vulture has inspired a flying submarine; how a giraffe's neck can stop a jet pilot losing consciousness; how a woodpecker's skull can safely protect a light bulb dropped from space; and how a South American butterfly holds the secret to making any mobile phone waterproof.
- Year: 2012
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: natural history, nature
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- Cast: Richard Hammond