 | Ancient Creature of the Deep Meet the coelacanth, a bizarre fish and "living fossil" that has changed little in its 400 million years on Earth. |
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 | Animal Hospital High-tech health care comes to veterinary medicine—radiology to surgery, intensive care to sports medicine. |
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 | Ape Genius Experts zero in on what separates humans from our closest living relatives. |
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 | Beast of Loch Ness, The Scientists employ state-of-the-art sonar and cameras in an attempt to locate the elusive Loch Ness Monster. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Bird Brains Clues to the origins of human language are turning up in the brains of birds. |
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 | Bone Diggers Deep in an Australian cave, paleontologists discover fossils of extinct giant animals. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Capturing Carbon An eighth-grader's science fair project prompts her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. |
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 | Crocodiles! Scientists examine the life of the crocodile, a creature that has changed little since the time of the dinosaurs. |
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 | Curse of T. rex How do paleontologists and commercial fossil hunters know where to look for rare and priceless dinosaur bones? |
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 | Deep Sea Invasion A toxic aquarium plant is accidentally released into the Mediterranean, overwhelming marine life and threatening to spread worldwide. |
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 | Dogs and More Dogs How and why did man's best friend evolve from wolves, and why are dogs so remarkably diverse today? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Emergence How does the "intelligence" of an ant colony or the stock market arise out of the simple actions of its members? |
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 | First Flower In remote mountains of China, experts find clues to the origins of Earth's most stunning plants. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: First Primates Our most distant primate ancestors, which took the stage shortly after the dinosaurs left it, were tree-dwellers the size of mice. |
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 | Flying Casanovas The male bowerbird of Australia exhibits extraordinary courting antics. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Frozen Frogs The common wood frog freezes solid every winter and then, come spring, defrosts and mates. |
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 | Four-Winged Dinosaur, The Surprising fossils from northeastern China spur a debate over how birds evolved. |
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 | Garden of Eden The giant tortoise and an ant-sized frog are just two of the dazzling array of life-forms native to the Seychelles Islands. |
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 | Ghost in Your Genes Experts investigate how a mysterious "second genome" helps determine our biological fates. |
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 | Hawaii Born of Fire From their blistering beginnings as molten rock, the Hawiian islands have grown into a verdant paradise of unique lifeforms. |
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 | Into the Abyss A daring expedition attempts to retrieve several "black smoker chimneys" from the seafloor a mile and a half down. |
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 | Island of the Sharks Visit Costa Rica's Cocos Island, which boasts more sharks per cubic yard of water than perhaps any other place on the planet. |
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 | Island of the Spirits On the island of Hokkaido in the far north of Japan lives an extraordinary spectrum of life. |
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 | Japan's Secret Garden For at least 2,000 years, the wildlife and people living around Japan's Lake Biwa have lived in a harmonious balance. |
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 | Jewel of the Earth David Attenborough probes the mysteries of ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber. |
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 | Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial Science is 'Exhibit A' in a landmark trial on the teaching of evolution. |
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 | Kingdom of the Seahorse The world's leading sea horse biologist journeys to Australia and the Philippines to explore the secret lives of these extraordinary fish. |
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 | Kings of Camouflage Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean. |
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 | Last Great Ape, The An expedition into the Congo examines one of our closest living relatives, the peace-loving bonobo. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Leeches A century after falling out of favor among doctors, medicinal leeches are back in hospitals, sucking away on patients' wounds. |
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 | Leopards of the Night NOVA's state-of-the-art camera equipment reveals the nocturnal hunting behavior of leopards in Zambia's Luangua Valley. |
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 | Lord of the Ants Naturalist E.O. Wilson's fascination with little creatures has led him to some very big ideas. |
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 | Master of the Killer Ants The Mofu people of Cameroon rely on an unlikely ally—a driver ant—to protect their homes and crops. |
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 | Methuselah Tree NOVA examines the fascinating life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, a 4,600-year-old bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Mirror Neurons A recently discovered system in the brain may help explain why we humans can get so worked up watching other people. |
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 | Missing Link, The Paleontologists studying the Devonian Period (408-360 million years ago) discover a tiny fossil of colossal importance. |
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 | Mysterious Life of Caves Toxic caverns teeming with strange life-forms spark a radical theory of how caves take shape. |
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 | Night Creatures of the Kalahari Beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari lies a hidden world of rare and exotic animals. |
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 | Odyssey of Life Lennart Nilsson's extraordinary microphotography reveals a world we've never seen—within and on ourselves. |
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 | Orchid Hunter NOVA investigates an all-consuming passion for orchids, nature's most highly evolved plant. |
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 | Perfect Pearl, The Once a rare gem produced by an accident of nature, the pearl is now the product of careful human engineering. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Bonnie Bassler Her insight into how bacteria "talk" has launched a revolution in biological and medical research. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: The Search for ET Astronomers have their radio telescopes tuned to receive signals from alien worlds. But is anybody out there? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Edith Widder Meet a marine biologist and explorer who has engineered new ways to spy on deep-sea creatures. |
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 | Secret of Photo 51 Meet Rosalind Franklin, the unsung heroine behind the discovery of DNA's double helix. |
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 | Secrets of the Crocodile Caves Rare lemurs and crocodiles with bizarre cave-dwelling behavior draw scientists to a remote corner of Madagascar. |
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 | Shark Attack! Sharks are known as the "perfect predators," but sometimes they slip up and attack the wrong prey—people. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Stem Cells What are they, and how do we find a balance between hope for cures and respect for life? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Stem Cells Breakthrough Three separate teams overcome a biomedical hurdle—creating stem cells without the use of human embryos. |
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 | Ocean Animal Emergency Wildlife veterinarians struggle to save injured seals and sea lions on the California coast. |
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 | Tales from the Hive Our cinematographer films inside a hive and follows bees in flight to capture honeybee behavior. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: T. Rex Does an adolescent growth spurt account for T. rex's enormous size? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: T. Rex Blood? Preserved soft tissue, including possible blood vessels and red blood cells, are turning up in dinosaur fossils. |
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 | Volcano Above the Clouds Join a scientific expedition to the glacier-capped summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain. |
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 | Wild Wolves NOVA exposes the secret life of the pack: where its members live, how they hunt, what their calls mean. |
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 | Wilds of Madagascar, The Scientists try to capture and study a catlike predator known as the fossa and an extremely rare lemur called the silky sifaka. |
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 | World in the Balance NOVA investigates forces that are radically changing populations in both rich and poor nations, and explores how to create a world that can sustain the human race. |
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