Wildlife

Great Mysteries of the Deep: How Sharks Find Their Way Home

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How are sharks able to travel thousands of miles across the ocean and return to the same exact locations year after year? Last month, researchers found the answer to one of the greatest mysteries in the animal kingdom.

Are The Birds Getting Louder?

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From the pages of The Explorers Journal, contributing editor Nick Smith gets to the bottom of a global pandemic phenomenon.

Great Whites Of Seal Island

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The waters around Seal Island, South Africa, became famous for its impressive acrobatic great whites. White sharks routinely breached the surface using their highly-specialized seal hunting technique until 2015 when sightings dropped significantly.

Sharks in a Hurricane

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Sharks have a built-in warning system that helps them detect approaching hurricanes and know when to quickly get out of dodge.

Great Whites are Moving Out

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The waters around Seal Island, South Africa became famous for its impressive acrobatic great whites. White sharks routinely breached the surface using their highly-specialized seal hunting technique until 2015 when sightings dropped significantly.

Great White Pups In New York

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Researchers discover a large number of baby great white sharks living and feeding off the coast of Long Island, New York, near the town of Montauk.

Great White Sharks

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The Beauty of Protecting Our Oceans: Shark Atoll

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The Shark Atoll of Palmyra

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Palmyra Atoll is an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean that is part of a massive oceanic conservation area known as Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. It's vital to the health of our world's oceans and it's filled with sharks.

The Jaws Boat is Being Rebuilt, But This Time to Save Sharks

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‘The ORCA’ may just be the most famous boat in the film industry. Immortalized by the thriller Jaws in 1975, the vessel relentlessly pursued the 25-foot, three ton-big shark. However a new reincarnation of the old classic boat will take on a new goal: to save sharks, not hunt them.

Great White Hunting Tactics

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A lot of scientists used to believe that great white sharks just did a breaching method, which works effectively in South Africa, but not in Guadalupe Island.

Top Five Rarest Bottom Dwellers

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National Insect week occurs between June 20 -26. The week focuses on the importance of insects within ecosystems, nature, and wildlife. Insects do have a bad reputation, as some are a nuisance, and some are scary, but each plays a key role in maintaining order in nature. In celebration of the hard-working insects that you may see in your backyard, here’s a list of the ones you won’t be seeing. The rarest insects on the planet.

Costa Rica's Protected 'Shark Island' Will Save Thousands of Species

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Costa Rica began the year with a fresh green start after its president announced new protections for the country’s unique biodiversity and wildlife species, expanding a national park by 27 times its size.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Do Wombats Poop Cubes?

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Learn about a newly discovered way to cut down on intrusive thoughts; why wombats poop cubes; and why UPS trucks almost never make left turns.

How Technology is Transforming Wildlife Protection

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Learn how surveillance methods employing satellite tracking, drones and artificial intelligence are transforming wildlife protection.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Human-Wildlife Conflict and Believing Leisure Is a Waste of Time

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Learn about the science of human-wildlife conflicts; and what you risk by believing that leisure is a waste of time.

Cougars, Gators, and Wolves? Meet the Beast Buddies

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Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Duck-Billed Platypus Is Weirder Than You Thought

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Learn about what researchers found when they sequenced the bizarre duck-billed platypus genome; a trick for unlocking your creativity; and the strange reasons for job-specific voices, like those of pilots, newscasters, and poets.