WATCH: Baby Iguana Run For Its Life From A Terrifying Pit Of Snakes

BBC viewers were scared stiff by a dramatic footage in the long-awaited series Planet Earth 2 that showed dozens of snakes chasing baby iguanas.

The amazing film showed a young iguana running for its life away from a seemingly endless onslaught of Galápagos racers.

When it scrambled, the snakes would strike. No matter how fast it sprinted across the sandy coast, the snakes were always dangerously close behind.

At one point, it didn’t look like the determined reptile would make it, but with surprising agility for a clunky lizard, it managed to escape to safer grounds.

Galápagos racers are endemic to the archipelago, and are actually known to hunt for fish, a “unique behaviour of terrestrial snake not observed anywhere else is the world,” according to the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

While most of their fare is comprised of small lizards, geckos, and mice, it’s not unheard of for these snakes to snatch a marine iguana when the opportunity arises.

Meanwhile, when the crew saw the snakes for the first time, they were too shocked to film and host Sir David Attenborough had never seen anything like it either, it was claimed.

MailOnline TV critic Jim Shelley said: “One chase scene and narrow escape was more thrilling than anything in James Bond and actually not that different.”


He added that the racer snakes “sounded scarier and scary enough without the sight of them hunting in packs, like a scene from Indiana Jones.”

And Daily Mail TV critic Christopher Stevens, who gave the first episode of the new series five stars, described last night's sequence as “truly edge-of-the-seat.”

He said the predators writhed together “like a mythical animal with a dozen heads” and “they looked like animated clay monsters from an old-fashioned horror movie.”

[Source: DailyMail]