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How to Care for the Ocean

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Post date Dec 27, 2011
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Watch this video with your family and friends to learn small steps that have a big impact on the well-being of our oceans.

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Tags conservation, Education, environment, national geographic, ocean, Ocean Education

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Maggots Can Save Your Life

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Post date Dec 6, 2011
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Plenty of words come to mind at the mention of maggots. Gross, disgusting… helpful? Watch as hundreds of maggots are used to clean a woman’s open wound.

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Swallowing a Beating Chicken Heart

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Post date Nov 30, 2011
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Would you swallow the beating heart of a chicken to regain your courage?

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Tags alternative medicine, animal sacrifice video, beating chicken heart, national geographic, piers gibbon, ritual healing

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Aww Of The Day

These little baby penguins have grown 10 times their size in only 3 weeks! Their parents have a lot of feeding to do.

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Tags aww, baby penguins, national geographic, penguin, Penguin Island, penguin parents

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White Shark on the Isla de Guadalupe

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Post date Nov 22, 2011
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Cage divers confront a great white shark on the Isla de Guadalupe. (Photo and caption by David Litchfield/Nature/National Geographic Photo Contest)

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Tags diving, Isla de Guadalupe, national geographic, shark, white shark

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Anaconda Hunts the World’s Largest Rodent

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Post date Nov 4, 2011
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When you’re an anaconda, you don’t need venom to take down your prey… even if it’s the world’s largest rodent, a capybara, weighing somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred pounds!

Tags anaconda, capybara, constrictor, deadliest, deadly kill, giant anaconda, giant snake, hunt, largest, national geographic, snake, stalk

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Spectacular Dam Removal Time Lapse

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Post date Nov 4, 2011
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The White Salmon River in Washington state is flowing again as the nearly 100-year-old Condit Dam was disabled with explosives Wednesday. The reservoir draining took about 2 hours. Further demolition is scheduled in 2012. The event is a significant milestone for river restoration and dam removal nationwide.

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Damn Nature, You Scary!

Japanese giant hornets pack a venomous sting so strong it can dissolve human tissue. But when a hornet scout enters a beehive, watch as the bees turn the tables on their enemy — and literally bake the predator to death!