BBC Three

A round-up of the day's news.

Steve Backshall delves into the weird and wonderful world of the parasites in this Deadly 60 special. From leeches to tapeworms and cuckoos to mosquitoes he reveals the mind-boggling methods that parasites employ to survive, breed and feed by exploiting their animal and human...

Steve Backshall has a look at some of the super skills and senses that animals around the world use to hunt and survive. From the blistering speed and acceleration of the cheetah to the elastic tongue and 360-degree vision of the chameleon and even a shark with a remarkable,...

Mervin is about to fly home but finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation when a body is discovered in his shack. As Mervin professes his innocence, the team cannot work out how the victim ended up inside a locked building.

Linda persuades Sue to go camping to see an epic meteor shower under clear skies, but she ends up causing absolute chaos at the campsite. Meanwhile, Michael receives some shocking news.

Now that an unemployed Michael is back under his parents' roof, he decides Linda has to go. However, can Sue genuinely face life without her?

Philomena Cunk travels the world, heading down caves and up mountains in her search for mankind's first moments, and with the help of a variety of experts, she explains how the earliest societies were formed: from the easier ones to spell, like Rome and Greece, to the ones that...

Cunk tells the story of the birth of two of the world's great religions and learns what came next: the fall of the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Crusades and Genghis Khan. So a bit of a rough patch for mankind, if we're honest.