Wildlife

The Shark Experience at Georgia Aquarium

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Naked and Afraid of Sharks 2: Meet The Survivalists

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Behind the Scenes: Shark Rumble

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Meet the Shark Academy Recruits Competing for the Chance of a Lifetime

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How Do Owls Turn Their Heads All the Way Around?

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Sharks and their Interspecies Friendships

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Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Time Can Flow Backward, Why Poisonous Pufferfish Are Delicious, and Undersea Cables

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Learn about a quantum theory that says time can flow backward; why the Internet relies on huge undersea cables; and why people eat pufferfish, even though they’re incredibly poisonous.

There’s a Lot You Don’t Know About Sharks

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But in the meantime, here are some fin-tastic facts you probably didn’t know about sharks.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Moral Outrage Online, Cuttlefish Memory, Sounds Have Shapes

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Learn about the dark side of likes and shares; how cuttlefish memory stays sharp in old age; and bouba and kiki shapes.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Many Sharks Are Yet to Be Discovered?

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Luke Tipple is joined by Shark Week host and all-around adventurer Forrest Galante. They discuss his upcoming special Alien Sharks: South Africa, Forrest’s remarkable talent for finding creatures once believed to be extinct, and how many shark species may still be unknown. Then, our researcher Sierra stops by to tell us about the world’s most prehistoric shark.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Smart Are Sharks?

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The discussion turns this week to sharks’ intelligence, and how it varies among species. Host Luke Tipple is joined by Dr. Tristan Guttridge, a behavioral ecologist and veteran of Shark Week whose research has tackled the social smarts, and even personalities, of different kinds of sharks. He sheds light on why we shouldn’t just think of them as dumb fish with rows of razor-sharp teeth. And at the end, our researcher Sierra Kehoe tells us about shark hypnosis.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Humans Are Symmetrical, Fish Electrocution Physics, A Misplaced Equator Theme Park, and Silent Places

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Learn about one of the only silent places in the United States; why fish aren’t electrocuted during lightning storms; why an equator theme park was built in the wrong place; and why humans are symmetrical.

New Eli Roth Film 'FIN' to Premiere During Shark Week on discovery+

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The film, streaming on discovery+ July 13, uncovers the truth behind the death of millions of sharks and is executive produced by stars like Leonardo Dicaprio, Nina Dobrev, as well as director Eli Roth.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Shark Fishing Funds Human Trafficking

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Luke Tipple is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the Outlaw Ocean Ian Urbina, who has dedicated his life to chronicling crime on the high seas. They discuss the state of our world’s oceans, how nearly 20% of your seafood was likely caught illegally, and the surprising link between modern slavery and the killing of sharks.

Baby Sharks are in Hot Water

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Climate change impacts everything. From rising ocean levels to record-breaking wildfires, we can see the changes occurring with our own eyes. One of the most resilient species of all time is the shark. Warming waters are challenging their ability to adapt, and one of the signs of the times is smaller baby sharks that are having a hard time surviving.

Condors are Missing in California’s Wildfire Blaze

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A conservation success story in California has taken a turn for the worst following the catastrophic blazes that have swept the state over the past month.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Did Alien Tech Crash-Land into the Ocean?

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Host Luke Tipple is joined this week by renowned Harvard professor, Dr. Avi Loeb, who recently led a deep-sea expedition to discover if evidence for advanced alien life crash-landed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014. They discuss the recent Congressional UFO hearings, how the last seventy years of research into extraterrestrial life has been potentially misguided, and the challenges of searching for tiny objects on the bottom of the ocean.

Jeff and Lauren Lowe are Permanently Banned from Exhibiting Animals

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This comes after the documentary stars and self-proclaimed rivals of Carole Baskin were accused of animal abuse and neglect.Stream Carole Baskin’s Cage Fight on discovery+.