Brady and his team try new methods of catching the strong, fast and semi-aquatic animals, one of Africa's biggest wildlife management challenges.

Brady uses a robot that is disguised as a jackal to lure a python; Brady attempts to use a robot to capture a 9-foot mamba snake.

Brady Barr embarks on a mission to better understand the sawfish.

After several villagers are killed by man-eating crocodiles, Brady trains a team of local rangers to capture crocs for relocation.

Brady rates four salamanders based on size, survival skills, sliminess and toxicity to determine the king of all salamanders.

Brady develops a reinforced, life-size hippo decoy to protect himself as he gets close to Nile hippos in a quest to better understand the animals.

Brady seeks the electric eel in the heart of the Surinamese rainforest.

Brady uses a range of hands-on tests to discover how the Komodo dragon is able to take down animals 10 times its own weight.

Brady treks through the heart of Africa's Congo Basin in search of a mysterious beast that local tribes refer to as "the one who stops the flow of rivers."

The sixgill shark, one of the oldest carnivorous species on earth, has remained elusive despite the creature's massive size.

A python repeatedly bites Barr and wraps him in its powerful coils when he tries to capture it for further study.

A Humboldt squid in Mexico's Sea of Cortez.

Brady works to create a unique, protective crocodile-suit to allow him to get close to wild Nile crocodiles without having to restrain them.

Brady investigates brown bears and polar bears in the Alaskan rainforest and Canada's Hudson Bay.

Brady tries to establish the wildest animal in America's west.

This award-winning series presents compelling untold stories and covers a wide array of provocative subjects. "Explorer" aired for 25 years -- the longest-running documentary series in cable TV history -- before being relaunched in 2015 after a five-year hiatus. Each monthly episode of the new "Explorer" takes a similar deep dive inside a story from the pages of a recent National Geographic magazine issue, taking viewers not only to the most remote corners of the globe but also to the furthest reaches of the mind and deepest crevices of history -- on urgent missions of discovery.

"Naked Science" strips away the layers of a scientific investigation into one of the big mysteries of our time, revealing through expert analysis realistic scenarios that either confirm or deny long-held assumptions and misconceptions.

British adventurer and cinematographer Richard Terry travels to faraway jungles and remote islands in search of the truth behind stories of unknown creatures attacking, and killing, humans. In the Amazon rainforest, Terry is on the trail of a huge spider said to be attacking villagers; in southern Mexico, reports of a terrifying creature that attacks locals at night sends Terry into the jungles of Chiapas to investigate; and in the Indonesian archipelago, Terry island hops to expose a giant, blood-thirsty reptile that preys on livestock and humans.

Dr. Brian Hare applies his research to help dog owners better understand their canine companions.

Advanced computer graphics, forensic science, eyewitness accounts, interviews with experts, archival footage and re-enactments piece together in great detail the events that led to some of the biggest disasters of modern time.

Stunning computer animation brings the most ferocious giants of the Ice Age back to life, creating a portrait of their wild existence and puzzling extinction. Also, details about their lives and disappearance are revealed through the work of paleontologists, who uncover fossilized bones of these lethal creatures.

"Move as millions. Survive as one." That's the catchphrase of this seven-part event for which a National Geographic team spent two-plus years recording across 20 countries and all seven continents. Narrated by Alec Baldwin, it tells the stories of many of the planet's species and the journeys they undertake to ensure their survival. The diverse range of animals shown -- many revealing behaviors never caught on film before -- include Botswana zebras, Mali elephants, flying foxes in Australia, Pacific white sharks, and the white-eared kob of the Sudan, thought to have been destroyed during decades of violence.