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Why is Ana fascinated by the rich variety of life on Earth? Find out!
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Find out how Lisa’s work impacts the health of communities.
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Can poisons be used for good? Yes, and Robert will tell you why.
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Take a peek inside two paleontologists' scrapbook.
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Growing up in Argentina, Adriana Aquino loved nature, especially the ocean. As a young girl, she wondered what it wou...
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Do you dig the Earth? If so, you'll want to meet Ed.
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Since he was a kid, George Amato has been wild about wildlife. Today he works for the Wildlife Conservation Society a...
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Tracking a gorilla can get hairy. Literally. Just ask George Amato.
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Find out why Alice in Wonderland is Mandë's favorite poison story.
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Come explore three different rain forest habitats.
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The oceans are filled with creatures that use poison to survive. Some use chemical defenses to deter predators. Other...
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Melanie Stiassny has been fascinated by fish from the time she was a little girl living in London. Today, Melanie is...
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Watch these videos to explore Felicity's work as a conservation biologist.
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Einstein believed that messing up was a part of being successful-an idea that, itself, has proven relevance.
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Find out how paleontologist John Flynn answered kids' questions.
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Ancient trash or ancient treasure? This archaeologist tells us which he prefers.
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What does this marine biologist like most about her work? Find out!
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Eleanor Sterling is the Director for the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural H...
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As a kid, John Flynn had a rock collection and made lots of trips with his family and school to the American Museum o...
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When most people think of flamingos, they imagine the delicate pink bird wading in a warm and sunny tropical marsh. N...
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Ross MacPhee has always loved dirt. It means the opportunity to find lost things--from bones and teeth to pirate trea...
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Susan Perkins has always loved being outside. As a child, she played in the woods and took field notes about birds an...
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Many historians consider English scientist Sir Isaac Newton the first modern physicist. He explained how gravity affe...
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What does Chris like most about studying reptiles and amphibians? Find out!
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Why does this scientist love studying tiny living things called microbes?
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Ross MacPhee has always loved dirt. To him it means the opportunity to find lost things — from bones and teeth to pirate treasure.
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Dive into the oceans with an ichthyologist.
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Ed Mathez has always been fascinated by rocks and the Earth. As a young boy, he went with his mother to old rock quar...
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Visit a scientist's lab to see how he creates a magma chamber!
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When Paula Mikkelsen moved to Florida, she turned a fun hobby into an exciting career. She enjoyed walking along Flor...
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Jim is fascinated with volcanoes. He wants to know why some volcanoes erupt explosively, and how he might be able to...
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When she was a kid, Ana explored the landscapes of rural Uruguay and Brazil and the many plants and animals that live...
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Just a century ago, many people died from minor bacterial infections and diseases. A simple cut or strep throat could...
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These tropical freshwater fishes come in so many colors, shapes, and sizes, it's nearly impossible to sum up the fami...
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Chris Raxworthy has been fascinated by all things scaly and slimy since he was a kid. Chris is a herpetologist at the...
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Since he was a boy, Vladimir Ovtsharenko has been fascinated by nature. Growing up, he loved collecting spiders, beet...
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In college, Laurel Kendall had so many interests she couldn't decide on a major. Then she took a class in anthropolog...
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As an Eagle Scout, David Hurst Thomas was always on the lookout for ancient Indian camps. He never found one as a kid...
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In the forests of Central and South America grows the vibrant passionflower with deep red flowers and juicy yellow fr...
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Gravity is the force of attraction between all objects in the Universe. Objects with more mass have greater gravitati...
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Visit three national parks and monuments. What can you discover with just your eyes?
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When "ologists" observe plants, animals, fossils, or rocks, they know they won't remember every detail. So...
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Find out from a zooarchaeologist how humans have tamed and bred horses.
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Jade is a special and rare rock. For thousands of years, people around the world have been using this durable and bea...
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Einstein might never have become a worldwide celebrity had it not been for the English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington.
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Ian Harrison first became interested in sea life during family vacations to the southwest coast of England.
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Gregor Mendel not only ate his peas, he used them to figure out how genes are passed from generation to generation. I...
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Albert Einstein was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who changed the way we think about our world and our Universe.
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Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Poland during a time when women were prohibited from receiving a college education.
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Considered a pioneer in astronomy, Johannes Kepler is best known for his three laws of planetary motion.
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Carefully removing the fossils without damaging them takes talent, special tools, and lots of patience. 
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The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world. Whether slithering on land, climbing trees, or swimming, i...
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Find out how the Big Bang Theory came to be.
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Galileo was a "jack of all trades." He was a musician, a philosopher, a physicist, and an astronomer. He is...
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As a conservation geneticist, Yael tries to help endangered species by studying their DNA.
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In college, Rob DeSalle wanted to study the narwhal, an Arctic whale with an eight-foot spiral tooth.
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Growing up in Panama, Chuck was interested in old ruins, Spanish forts, and archaeological sites. In college, he work...
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Christina was always fascinated by archaeology because it combined her love of history with her interest in world cul...
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Craig Morris knows there's no such thing as too many artifacts.
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Over 100 years ago, an archaeologist named Marshall Saville began exploring ancient ruins in Mexico.
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Like many kids interested in science, Ro Kinzler thought she wanted to be a marine biologist. But later on, she reali...
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Scientists all over the world send precious cargo to Julie Feinstein: frozen samples of animal tissues.
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For Steve Quinn, art and science have always gone hand-in-hand. As a kid, he liked to draw and make clay models of di...
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When Martha Hurley first took science as a kid, she thought it was boring. She'd rather be outside exploring nature....
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As a kid growing up in New York City, Rebecca Oppenheimer always wanted to study stars and planets. She never dreamed...
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In college, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low decided to take science classes that looked like fun. So he chose astrophysics, whi...
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His love of natural sciences and extreme camping led this scientist to paleontology.
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Edwin Hubble was one of the great astronomers of the 20th century. His work made the Universe a bigger place. He prov...
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On a clear night, Mike Shara sees more than just the beautiful twinkling of stars when he gazes at the sky.
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When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natura...
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In 1910, British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott set sail for Antarctica aboard the Terra Nova. He hoped to be the...
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Henry Bowers was no stranger to the sea. He had sailed around the world 5 times. But when he join- ed Robert Scott's...
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he joined Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica. Known as "Cherry," he...
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As a child in Norway, Roald Amundsen dreamed of being a polar explorer. At 26, he was one of the first people to spen...
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Oscar Wisting was part of the famous Antarctic expedition led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He was a tale...
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In the early 1900s, Olav Bjaaland was a skiing champion in Norway. In 1910, he joined famous explorer Roald Amundsen...
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At age 10, George Barrowclough began bird watching with his dad. He pursued his interest in birds by becoming an orni...
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Growing up, Joel Cracraft loved reading travel and adventure books. In high school, he became interested in ornitholo...
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It's no fluke that Howard Rosenbaum is wild about whales -- especially the endangered right whales and humpback whales.
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Sterling was always fascinated by nature, ancient history, and archaeology. Since he was 15 years old, he has spent e...
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A dinosaur book led to this paleontologist's lifelong fascination with fossils.
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This real-life "Indiana Jones" led the first AMNH expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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As a kid, Neil Tyson first glimpsed the magic of the Universe in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Nat...
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Before telescopes were invented, people gazed at the night sky with amazement and dreamed of a closer look.
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George Harlow travels the world over to study how jade, rubies, and diamonds form. George wants to find out what thes...
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Albert Einstein is famous for making many revolutionary discoveries. But perhaps Einstein’s most famous discovery was...
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Thousands of years ago, nomads traveled throughout the area that is now Peru. Eventually, they settled into villages...
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More than 60 moons orbit Jupiter. One of these moons is Europa. It is especially intriguing to scientists. Miles belo...
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Would you measure the distance between New York and New Delhi in inches? For the same reason, astronomers don't use m...
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About 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert, sixteen dinosaurs hatched in this nest. One of the hatchlings died bef...
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The Sumatran tiger is found in only one place on the Earth -- on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Fewer than 500 o...
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That toothy grin might make you think this is a crocodile or an alligator. But the Yacaré caiman is neither. Caimans...
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If you ever find a pseudoscorpion in your bathtub, don't worry! These tiny arachnids are harmless to humans.
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Five hundred years ago, a great empire stretched along the Andes mountains and the Pacific coast of South America.
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In the 1940s, paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History discovered rich fossil beds in the high des...
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In the 1920s, the first team of Museum paleontologists trekked to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is the first major optical telescope to orbit Earth.
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Compared to other titanosaurs, Gondwanatitan was a peewee at only about 7.5 meters (25 feet) long. 
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Challenge your friends to this Mesozoic Era card game.
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Who will be the first to diversify their gut microbiome and win? 
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Find out why a ball thrown in the air will return to the ground. 
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Meet six rocks that travelled to the Museum from places like Mexico, Scotland, and even outer space.
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This famous long-necked, long-tailed wonder belongs to a group called "sauropods." 
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This "king tyrant lizard" was one of the largest carnivores that ever lived.
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This predator has fast feet, a pair of "killing claws," and more than 60 jagged teeth!
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This plant-eating dinosaur might have weighed as much as 225 kilograms (500 pounds)!
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Obsidian doesn't look like your typical rock. In fact, it looks more like dark glass than a rock you'd pick up in you...
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The plates that make up the Earth's crust are always moving. When two plates meet, the motion causes lots of pressure...
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Dug up in the Alxa Desert in China, this is the oldest and most complete therizinosaur ever found.
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This theropod belonged to a group called ornithomimids, also called "ostrich-mimics." 
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As you can tell from its body plates and tail spikes, this dinosaur is related to Stegosaurus. 
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This horned dinosaur had two long spikes on the back of its frill, the bony extension behind its skull.
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This plant-eating dinosaur was an ornithopod, as are duck-bill dinosaurs. 
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With its bird-like features, this animal was mistaken for a giant bird for a while.
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This is one of the oldest known dinosaurs!
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This living dinosaur is also known by its common name, the Martineta tinamou. 
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This prehistoric relative of living ducks had a long neck, tall legs, webbed feet, and a duck-like head.
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Because of the diamond-shaped plates on its back, Stegosaurus was given a name that means "roof lizard." 
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Oviraptor was a bizarre-looking, toothless dinosaur. 
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Estuaries are places where a river meets the sea. This ever-changing ecosystem is bursting with life. Saltwater from...
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Effigia looks just like a dinosaur. It particularly looks a lot like bird-like dinosaurs called ornithomimids, or ost...
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When the famous Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North America, a very similar dinosaur was living on the other side of the E...
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Sauropods weren't just the largest dinosaurs. They were also the largest animals to ever live on land. The sauropod M...
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This primitive armored dinosaur had bony plates and spikes that served almost like armor.
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Its brow horns and snout horn inspired this dinosaur's name, which means "three-horned face."
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Meet some of the more unusual members of T. rex and Velociraptor's family tree.
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This massive plant-eater lived about 100 million years ago. Today, a cast of this 122-foot long titanosaur welcomes v...
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Animals and plants are usually adapted to survive best in particular environments, known as their habitats.
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You have to be a really big thinker to imagine the size of the Universe.
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Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world!
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Albert Einstein made many great contributions to science that include the Special Theory of Relativity and the Genera...
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In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!
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With its swirling column of wind, a tornado is one of nature’s most destructive storms.
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Find out what makes the Sun glow, and other amazing facts, in an up-close interview with the Sun.
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Deformed conglomerate is a metamorphic rock that has been changed by heat and pressure.
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Granite is an igneous rock, which means it formed from magma, or melted rock. It forms deep inside the Earth under a...
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Igneous rocks form when magma, or melted rock from inside the Earth, cools and hardens. They can form above ground wh...
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Deep inside the Earth, intense heat and pressure can change rocks into entirely new metamorphic rocks.
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Some volcanoes erupt explosively, like opening a shaken soda bottle, because their magma is full of gases.
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For thousands of years, the dragon has been an unmistakable symbol around the world. But this lizard-like beast doesn...
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Despite its ferocious appearance, Barong Ket is a welcome sight in Bali, Indonesia.
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Throughout history, many cultures have told of mythic creatures of enormous size. The cyclopes are some of the most f...
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These rocks provide the most clues about the history of life on Earth. 
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Ninety-three million miles from Earth, a giant ball of hot gas brightens the sky. Nuclear reactions in the Sun's core...
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A solar system is made up of a star and everything that travels around it. Solar means "of the sun.
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Put on these handmade masks or puppets and tell your own mythic tale.
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In the wild, ruffed lemurs live in only one place -- the eastern rain forests of Madagascar.
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The gremlin-like, endangered aye-aye makes its home in the tropical forests of Madagascar, a large island off the coa...
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Compared to the continent of Africa, Madagascar may seem small. But this island, the fourth largest in the world, is...
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Sandstone is made of tiny pieces of sand you can see and feel. You can actually scratch away grains of sand from a pi...
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Limestone is made up of fossils. After small marine animals die, their shells and skeletons build up on the ocean floor.
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The mythic bird-creature Garuda is often shown attacking Nagas, snakelike creatures with human heads.
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In Japan, a frightening water creature called the kappa was long known for pulling children underwater and drowning t...
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You could travel the globe, but there's only one place you'd find a ruffed lemur: Madagascar. It is an endemic specie...
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Did you ever see a "shooting star"? What you really saw was a meteor burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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The Sun is speckled with markings called sunspots that look darker than the rest of its surface.
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Discover the intriguing facts and artifacts that Chuck has unearthed.
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Meet a scientist who studies Korean culture.
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Discover where starry-eyed Neil has followed his curiosity.
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Do fresh water and salt water mix? Find out in this experiment.
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This extinct bird weighed over 330 pounds and had heavy legs and tiny wings. 
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To try to piece together how organisms are related, scientists use cladistics.
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Take a world-wide tour of biodiversity with three scientists.
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Explore how Eleanor is protecting the world's animals and plants.
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What kind of person becomes an ichthyologist, a scientist who studies fish?
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Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out what makes the earth shake.
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Watch two stories from ancient Greece that are animated as if they are vase paintings come to life.
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Not all spiders spin webs to catch their meals. When night falls in Australia, the white-tailed spider hunts its prey...
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How do simple storms turn into swirling hurricanes?
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Find out what causes volcanoes to erupt and how scientists study them.
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Paleontologist Mark Norell answers questions about T. rex.