They are extremely awkward on land, and not exactly graceful in the water. But there's something endearing about these egg-laying mammals. Platypuses can only be found in the rivers, streams and lakes along the east coast of Australia. But they range...
Loch Ness(尼斯湖), a beautiful but forbidding（可怕的）lake in the Scottish Highlands. The first recorded sighting of a Loch Ness monster goes all the way back to the 6th century when an Irish monk was said to have chastised（责骂） the v...
In Southeast Asia, an abandoned city sprawls magnificently across the heart of Cambodia. Its hundreds of monuments contain more stone than the Egyptian pyramids, and cover more ground than modern Paris. This is Angkor, the capital of an Empire that o...
Moreton Bay, on the eastern coast of Australia, is always a rich and diverse ecosystem. Beds of sea grass stretch over miles, providing the foundation for fish, marine mammals and some truly ancient mariners（海员）. Protected areas, like Moreton...
The most powerful source of energy on the planet is actually out in space. It's our sun. More energy falls as sunlight on the US in a single day than it uses in a year. But it's been difficult to turn that sunlight into electricity. Many of us alread...
The Ark of the Covenant. Down through the ages, it has inspired devotion, terror and obsession. It has long been believed that this gold-encrusted chest was built to hold the Ten Commandments. The Israelites carried the Ark into virtually every battl...
If you are a Magellanic penguin, this ten-mile stretch of Argentine beach is where the action is--a place to scout about a new partner(物色新伴侣), conduct a courtship and settle down to raise the youngsters. National Geographic Grantee Dee Berg...
When Amna Ment Mohamed opens a window in her home, a fountain of sand tumbles to the floor. I am always afraid as our house can fall on our heads. The sand comes in from all sides and the windows. To reach her front door, she must climb over the sand...
Climate change is hitting hard in this village in Senegal on Africa's west coast. Houses along this stretch of beach have been abandoned and left to the waters. The advance of the water is damaging many houses around and the cabanas. At one time ther...
Its nestled in the tropical landscape of north Queensland, the Tolga Bat Hospital. Here volunteers hand-raise up to 500 baby spectacled flying foxes each year. These young bats have lost their mothers to a disease caused by ticks. The bat hospital st...
A recently discovered species of frogfish(襞鱼科) has been dubbed(授予称号) the psychedelic(引起幻觉的) fish because of the swirl of beige(米黄色的)and peach(桃红色的) zebra stripes that run from its blue eyes to its tail. Histiop...
Construction of a railway tunnel under the Istanbul or Bosporus Strait in Turkey has uncovered ancient ruins older than historians believed existed. The Marmaray Project aims to upgrade about 47 miles of commuter rail that includes connecting either...
15 million years ago, New Zealand was a different place. The country was blanketed by dense rainforests and partially submerged under the ocean. Analysis of sedimentary(沉淀性的) rocks has shown that sea temperatures in this part of the world ros...
The Florida Everglades, each winter, hordes（群） of manatees congregate in the warm waters here to survive the cooler weather. But they are not alone. Manatees share these waterways with boaters, and that has put them in a harm's way（危险的境...
Israeli archeologists have discovered a rare, well-preserved, 1800-year-old figurine in Jerusalem. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the two-inch marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard .Archeologists believe it was use...
