And if you've had too much news about the pandemic, Nat Geo has put together a new newsletter called Escape, full of awe-inspiring pictures, compelling stories, and no COVID-19 updates whatsoever. An audacious quest to find the world's southernmost tree. Conservation scientists are doing whatever they can to save them, or at least of piece of them. Want more? Got something to say? Watch the final return of the fossil that was auctioned off in New York to Bolor Minjin and other representatives of the Mongolian government.
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Bolor once took a Winnebago filled with dinosaur exhibits off-road, across the Gobi.
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overheard@natgeo.comWhen a Mongolian paleontologist sees a dinosaur skeleton illegally up for auction in the United States, she goes to great lengths to stop the sale.
Follow as Craig witnesses “the big meltdown” in Antarctica. Read about jaguars and their place as the divine feline in Mesoamerican cultures. Contact us: overheard@natgeo.comChirp. See eyewitness reports and videos from the February 2017 fireball that sparked the Aquarius Project. Also explore:
Each week, we'll dive into one of the curiously delightful conversations we've overheard around National Geographic's headquarters.
Meet your new neighbor, the coyote, and find out why these cunning canids are on the rise in North America-and beyond. Keep me coming!!! For example, they've already managed to turn rhino skin cells into beating heart cells. Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. Man-made glaciers.
Learn about the U.S. government program that killed millions of coyotes in "the most epic campaign of persecution against any animal in North American history." For more information on this episode visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard
You can see a photo of the strange shapes in the Allan Hills meteorite and read more about why scientists thought those shapes might be signs of life.
Contact us! Read more of Christine Dell'Amore's reporting about coyotes' remarkable spread. We've got some tips on how to make sure you're having an ethical encounter. Get some tips from National Geographic photographers on how to photograph wild animals ethically. Contact us: overheard@natgeo.comAnastasia Taylor-Lind talks about how she grew up living the life of a modern gypsy, traveling across southern England in the back of a horse-drawn wagon, and how her experiences covering conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine forever changed the way she views storytelling and war photography.
Do you live in the shadow of a volcano? Also explore: Ben Goldfarb believes that beavers aren't only not to blame for climate change, they're actually helping fight against it. overheard@natgeo.com Here's the backstory behind those whale songs you heard at the top of the show, from Roger Payne's Songs of the Humpback Whale. Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio You can also make your own pledge to live simply by visiting the I Live Simply movement's website.
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Want to dive further into the debate? Some of the most promising applications for the Frozen Zoo come from new technology that lets us turn one kind of cell into any other kind of cell. Beavers can survive in the arctic because - like people - they change the environment to make homes for themselves, and their carbon footprint can be seen from space. Click here to give us feedback on Overheard: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/snoverheardBringers of plague, schleppers of pizza slices, garbage gobblers. Show Overheard at National Geographic, Ep How I Learned to Love Zombie Parasites - Aug 4, 2020 What does it take to find a treatment for coronaviruses, and what might that mean for the future of COVID-19?
The Aquarius Project is no longer the only group to look for a meteorite in a massive body of water. overheard@natgeo.com Want More?
Check out pictures of some drunken forests. For more information on this episode visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard.A new weekly podcast from National Geographic.
See pictures of a petrified nodosaur on our website.
One photographer says it was more intense than watching the first four seasons of The Walking Dead. For more information on this episode visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard How the tiny country of the Netherlands is pioneering the future of sustainable agriculture.
Find out about the entrepreneur from Florida who went to jail for smuggling Mongolian fossils. WALLACE: I’m Vaughn Wallace, and this is Overheard at National Geographic. It's just, they had to use different technology. Contact us: overheard@natgeo.com
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Here's more information from Kevin Hand about why that ocean might be inhabited. Contact us! overheard@natgeo.comHumans face an existential problem: feeding billions of people in a warming world.
For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/overheard.When a Mongolian paleontologist sees a dinosaur skeleton illegally up for auction in the United States, she goes to great lengths to stop the sale. Travel inside the world's longest underwater cave system -- spanning 215 miles underneath the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Meet your new neighbor, the coyote, and find out why these cunning canids are on the rise in North America-and beyond. On our Coronavirus Coverage page you can find National Geographic's most up-to-date articles on the pandemic, including news and explanations of the science. Microbes are everywhere! Want more?