Former President, author and palaeontologist Richard Fortey’s new BBC 4 documentary is kicking off tonight!

‘Nature’s Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution’ investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the remarkable and unique species that live on them.

Episode one, which travels to Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly born island, starts at 9pm this evening.

Though we don’t have a sneak preview for you, we do have this evidence of Professor Fortey meeting one of those remarkable species…