Papua New Guinean Gabriel Porolak handles the captured male. He is the Tree Kangaroos Conservation Program Research Coordinator and a key figure in the local preservation effort. (Six kilograms.) The captured animal is weighed and examined by veterin...
High in the northern mountains on the island of New Guinea, in the cloud forest lives an elusive animal found no where else in the world. (Hello!) With an endearing face and a thick fur, the Matschies tree kangaroos of Papua New Guinea（巴布新几内...
Mount Everest looms in the distance. Its snow and ice-capped peak gleams in the sunshine. The Himalayan glacier is a fragile ecosystem, which environmentalists warn could soon disappear. Greenpeace says that as global warning increases temperatures a...
As dawn breaks, fishermen work furiously to hauling tuna. But while the fish may seem plentiful, there is trouble on the horizon. Fishermen were the fist to notice the alarming effects of rising sea temperatures. Beneath them the coral reefs are dyin...
One of the most iconic animals of the Galapagos Islands is the Giant Tortoise. Charles Darwin wrote of this tortoise in his famed report , Origin of Species, published 150 years ago this month. The differences between the tortoises from island to isl...
Archaeologists in Canada's Yukon have found whats believed to be the only untouched shipwreck from the Klondike Gold Rush, made famous by writers Jack London and Robert Service. Underwater video, taken with a remote operated vehicle, shows the remark...
The cormorant gives up for now. The bird has been foiled by the clarity of the water, the very thing that enables the manatee to thrive. The light through these waters helps plants flourish, and manatees are strict vegetarians. They can eat a hundred...
Some springs would eventually emerge in saltwater, more than 20 miles offshore. Here pirates once dropped buckets overboard. It's one of the very few places on earth where the sea provides drinking water. The warm spring waters revitalize the barren...
The divers started in the ocean, but they are now within solid bedrock, 150 feet beneath someone's living room. They are now swimming in the water supply for the town above. Here they find, as they had hoped, life in the pitch darkness. These are hyd...
Why does Florida have so many springs? Florida sits on a layer of porous limestone which acts as an underground reservoir or aquifer. This aquifer can absorb huge amounts of water. Where the pressure is great enough, springs bubble up, spewing up bil...
A National Geographic researcher and his team have uncovered fossilized remains of 5 ancient crocodile species that lived among dinosaurs some 100 million years ago. One of the crocs had an oversized set of canines, and another had a snout like a duc...
These aren't Christmas lights. This isn't a mutant lobster. And this fearsome-looking creature is not something you'd ever find at the end of your fishing hook. These are some of the rarely seen sea creatures found deep in the ocean in a world of tot...
Oddly enough, it was the Red Knot decline that made us pay attention to another species in decline. In the past decade, it's been estimated that horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay have dropped by 75 percent. It all began in the 90s, when the growing...
We are not the only species that's come to dependent on the horseshoe crab, they're critical to others too, like the Red Knot. It's now May in Brazil, the Red Knots have built up their fat reserves and they are now in their breeding plumage. They are...
As the water is warm and tides grow high, horseshoe crabs leave the ocean floor and make their way to the shores and estuaries of the Atlantic Coast. Here in the sheltered waters of South Carolina, they suddenly emerge by the thousands in the spawnin...
