Mutant Planet

In Africa's Albertine Rift, geological forces have created a variety of landscapes and transformed the climate. The residents of this evolutionary hotspot have been shaped by the Rift and evolved bizarre ways to survive.

Borneo is home to mutant creatures and plants found nowhere else on Earth. Pygmy forest mammals, co-evolved partnerships between plants and animals and the world's rarest ape occupy these 130-million-year-old jungles.

India's Western Ghats mountain range are a lush, jungle refuge in an otherwise parched landscape. They're home to a wide range of iconic animals and mutants all adapted to make the most of the monsoon rains.

The plants and animals in the Namib, the world's oldest desert, have had 50 million years to evolve cunning ways to cope with the heat and harvest water from the fog that often blankets this unique coastal desert.

Costa Rica is the most biodiverse country in the world for its size. It's an evolutionary melting pot resulting from the migration of animals from North and South America when a land bridge joined them 3 million years ago.