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What’s Behind Our New Logo?
Our logo has changed! You may have noticed that our familiar sea lion has been replaced by a stylized letter “N” set against a sphere that represents our wondrous planet.
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Nature & Wildlife
Lonesome George, I Will Miss You
Lonesome George died this past Sunday morning. His caretaker, Fausto Llerena, found the giant tortoise’s remains stretched out in his corral, facing his watering hole, at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands. I didn’t know George personally, but I grew up knowing about him.
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Travel Tales
10 Things the Galapagos Islands Taught Me
If you’re a parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent or friend, you probably know someone who was part of Graduation 2012. And at this time of year, young, degree-holding students are being bombarded with tips and advice during countless graduation speeches across the country.
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Travel Tales
Do Adventure Movies Inspire Risk-Taking?
Ever since the explorers of old used oral storytelling, flyers and published journals to spread word of streets lined with gold, fountains of youth or rich silks and spices, people have been using mass media to motivate others to go on adventures.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Incredible, Shrinking Wild World and Why Size Matters
Animals and plants are shrinking, and most scientists believe that global warming is the cause. Recently, researchers examined 85 species and found that 45 percent of them have been steadily decreasing in size from generation to generation.
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Travel Tales
The Galapagos Islands: An “Opposite” Trip
Now, about the middle of January, is the time when I start to dream about the places I’d like to visit.
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Videos
Video: Charles Darwin’s Fossils Newly Discovered
Curiosity can lead to wondrous things, as every scientist knows. And it certainly did recently for Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang at the British Geological Survey. Poking around in a dusty corner in the survey’s archives, Falcon-Lang happened to come across an old cabinet.
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Conservation
Scientists Discover ‘Extinct’ Galapagos Tortoise
Wow, this is exciting news from the conservation world! A Galapagos tortoise species thought to be extinct for 150 years has been discovered through DNA analysis by a team of researchers from Yale University. Matt Kareus, executive director of the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association, reports on the discovery.
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Travel Tips
The Cure for Too Much Information: Detox Inside by Getting Outside
For 2012, resolve to turn off the Internet, tune out the text and rediscover your inner self and core values — ideally on a wilderness adventure far away from technological tethers.
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Videos
Finding the Real Sea Monsters
Sea monsters are the stuff of thrilling fiction. From Jules Verne’s 1870 book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to James Cameron’s 1989 movie The Abyss, tales of what creatures lurk in our oceans have captured our rapt attentions for more than a hundred years.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Magic of Galapagos Through a Kid’s Eyes
We’re delighted to present guest blogger Dirk Komarnitsky, a 13-year-old from Boulder, Colorado, who recently returned from a week in the Galapagos with his family.
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Nature & Wildlife
What Whales Contemplate
Seems there’s a rising singing sensation who’s getting a lot of press lately. He hails from Australia. Well, actually, from off the coast of Australia—way off. From beneath the ocean. He’s a humpback whale.