--- title: Dramatic Planet Earth II Chase Pits Iguana Against Snake description: This intense scene of an iguana outrunning a horde of snakes is being called the "greatest TV moment ever" by viewers across the world. canonical: https://time.com/4562316/planet-earth-snakes-iguana/ author: Suyin Haynes article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-08T13:54:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:28.666Z og:title: Dramatic Planet Earth II Chase Pits Iguana Against Snake og:description: This intense scene of an iguana outrunning a horde of snakes is being called the "greatest TV moment ever" by viewers across the world. og:url: https://time.com/4562316/planet-earth-snakes-iguana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dramatic Planet Earth II Chase Pits Iguana Against Snake twitter:description: This intense scene of an iguana outrunning a horde of snakes is being called the "greatest TV moment ever" by viewers across the world. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Chase Scene from Planet Earth II Is More Exciting Than Any Hollywood Movie by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Nov 8, 2016 1:54 PM UTC by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Nov 8, 2016 1:54 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/MrLukeJohnston/status/795609403789635584) Screened as part of the BBC nature documentary [Planet Earth II](http://time.com/3823242/netflix-announces-our-planet/?iid=sr-link1), a clip of a young iguana pursued by seemingly endless troops of predatory racer snakes in the Galapagos Islands has been viewed over a million times on the television channel’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/BBCOne/?hc%5Fref=SEARCH&fref=nf). The deadly snakes, which hatch in the sand, force the iguana on a sprint across the beach before it finally finds sanctuary on some higher ground. Viewers also reacted with their own take on what they thought should have been the music to accompany the dramatic chase scene on social media. > [](https://twitter.com/briancgrubb/status/795708419965669376) > [](https://twitter.com/Wygle/status/795741573501722624) The first episode in the [series](http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p048sflc/planet-earth-ii-1-islands), presented by wildlife expert [David Attenborough,](http://time.com/4534688/zoos-peepholes-gorillas-david-attenborough/?iid=sr-link1) screened on Sunday in the U.K. and explored remote islands around the world that house the planet’s rarest creatures. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4562316/planet-earth-snakes-iguana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4562316/planet-earth-snakes-iguana/"},"headline":"This Chase Scene from Planet Earth II Is More Exciting Than Any Hollywood Movie","datePublished":"2016-11-08T13:54:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:28.666Z","description":"Nailbiting race between iguana and snake attracts online attention","url":"https://time.com/4562316/planet-earth-snakes-iguana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Snake"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suyin Haynes","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4562316/planet-earth-snakes-iguana/","name":"This Chase Scene from Planet Earth II Is More Exciting Than Any Hollywood Movie"}}]}] ```