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At this time of year, the minds of Hollywood TV and film producers aren’t the only ones full of thoughts of zombies, those rather stiff and stumbling, hungry and insatiable beings who want to eat the rest of us. Some creatures found in nature, too, have had their brains transformed, turning them into real-life zombies.
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By now, you’re probably well versed in the many scientific studies out there that provide proof of how your health improves when you spend time in green settings and the benefits you accrue by going outdoors for at least several minutes every day.
African Safaris
Leopards are, of course, among Africa’s fiercest and most cunning predators. On a typical day, a male leopard like the one in the video below might take down a big gazelle and haul it up a tree, tangle with a ferocious troupe of dagger-toothed baboons, and outmaneuver a cadre of conspiratorial hyenas.
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Could tiny cameras embedded in the horns of rhinos be the best, new tools to help stop poachers?
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Last year, 2014, was the warmest on record since 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. What is even more telling is that nine of the 10 warmest years since modern records began have now occurred since 2000.
African Safaris
Africa’s rhinos are up against it; one is killed every seven hours because many people in China, Vietnam and other south Asian countries believe that powdered rhino horn possesses curative and aphrodisiacal powers (it doesn’t).
African Safaris
Of all of Africa’s fascinating interspecies rivalries, lions and hyenas may take the prize for sheer drama, animosity, and entertainment value. Don’t believe me? Check out this footage shot in South Africa’s Londolozi Private Game Reserve.
Galapagos Islands
The crew of the the E/V Nautilus recently visited the Galapagos Rift and had the opportunity to film some of the creatures that live near the hydrothermal vents on the seafloor there. A recently posted video includes rare footage of the bizarre and beautiful flamboyant squid worm, a species that was only discovered in 2007.
Travel Tales
I’ve wanted to go to Antarctica ever since I first heard about it when I was a young child, probably in a children’s book about penguins or on TV. I thought it looked like a winter fairyland: so white, so pure, so beautiful. I dreamed about it for decades.
Galapagos Islands
Yesterday the Galapagos National Park Directorate released this spectacular nighttime footage of Wolf Volcano, which began erupting on May 25th. The volcano, which last erupted 33 years ago, is on the northern tip of Isabela Island, the largest in the archipelago.
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The many news reports regarding the consequences of rapid climate change have made us all familiar with the fact that some islands may soon disappear due to rising sea levels. But you may be surprised to learn that an offshore oil spill has already caused the destruction of an island.
Galapagos Islands
Even in death, Lonesome George is still undoubtedly the world’s most famous Galapagos giant tortoise. As the last living Pinta Island tortoise, his inability to reproduce and save his subspecies made him an international celebrity and a powerful, poignant symbol of the finality and tragedy of extinction.
