The Dolphin Defender: Introduction
Join Hardy Jones in his crusade to protect dolphins in NATURE’s The Dolphin Defender. Nearly three decades ago, filmmaker Hardy Jones became fascinated by wild dolphins. Even though many said it...
View ArticleWisdom of the Wild: Introduction
As humans learn more about animal intelligence, we also are discovering that animals have a lot to teach us. Those lessons are the provocative subject of Wisdom of the Wild. In a Tanzanian jungle, a...
View ArticleOcean Giants: Introduction
(View full post to see video) Watch a preview of the PBS Nature film, Ocean Giants. Whales and dolphins conjure a deep sense of wonder in us that’s hard to explain. From the Arctic to the Amazon, this...
View ArticleOcean Giants: Additional Resources
Voices in the Sea High-quality images and sound and video recordings of several marine animals from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego Whale Acoustics Lab. Text of the Marine Mammal...
View ArticleOcean Giants: Going Aquatic: Cetacean Evolution
All cetaceans, including whales, dolphins, and porpoises, are descendants of land-living mammals. How did these terrestrial ancestors morph over millions of years into the whales and dolphins we are...
View ArticleOcean Giants: Video: On the Hunt for Herring
(View full post to see video) Watch a scene from the PBS Nature film, Ocean Giants. Killer whales use a herding call to cause discomfort and confusion for a school of herring, making the fish easy...
View ArticleOcean Giants: Video: Bubble Play
(View full post to see video) Watch a scene from the PBS Nature film, Ocean Giants. What will a group of dolphins make of the silvery rings of air produced by a bubble machine? (Video limited to U.S....
View ArticleOcean Giants: Video: Dolphin Mud Walls
(View full post to see video) Watch a scene from the PBS Nature film, Ocean Giants. In the shallows of Florida Bay, the fish can be very difficult to catch. Dolphins solve the problem by creating...
View ArticleThe Dirt: This Week in Nature (7/14-7/20)
Ancient Human Fossil Hiding in Plain Sight. It sat in the laboratory building at the Maropeng Center in Gauteng, South Africa, for years, virtually unnoticed. Then, a lab technician noticed what...
View ArticleEARTHFLIGHT: Video: Cape Gannets and the Great Sardine Run
In this scene from EARTHFLIGHT: Africa, Cape gannets fly off the coast of South Africa in search of the great sardine run, the biggest fish migration in the world. The birds dive into the ocean to...
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