Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Samuel Gruber's team films white-tipped sharks and barracuda feeding at night off Cocos Island. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The great white shark and killer whale are both infamous marine predators. Normally they leave each other alone, but one day, biologists off the cost of California witness something unprecedented.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Several boats converge near the largest of the Farallon Islands when killer whales are spotted. But what they think is a young killer whale turns out to be a great white shark.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Here we see a simulation of how the attack happened, and find out what effect it had on the population of great white sharks around the Farallon Islands.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
How do sharks communicate? Particularly, how would the sharks around the Farallones all know exactly when to evacuate? Scientists who are working on "shark repellent" may have an explanation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Although no one will ever be completely certain why it occurred, many things have been learned about both species from the attack.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
National Geographic filmed South African penguins in their natural habitat. One penguin turns to crime in order to furnish the nest and keep his mate happy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The birth cycle of kangaroos, affectionately called “roos,” is the subject of this video from National Geographic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Within a deep and narrow cave in South Africa, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team found fossil remains belonging to the newest member of our human family. The Homo naledi discovery adds another exciting chapter to the human evolution story by introducing an ancestor that was primitive, but shared physical characteristics with modern humans.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Plastic pollution poses one of the biggest known threats to the ocean and all related ecosystems. Pollution comes in many forms, and agriculture is one important key to bringing about necessary change. All of us are key players, since we all eat food.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Ellis Island, the U.S. gateway to immigration from distant lands, has been reopened to visitors, following significant damage from Hurricane Sandy. A visit there, and to the nearby Statue of Liberty, can be emotional, even for those born in the U.S.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Benedict Cumberbatch solo rappels down a cliff with some encouragement from Bear. In Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear is taking it up a level by teaching his celebrity guests essential survival skills that they'll have to master and then prove they can use in a high-stress situation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
British songwriter and actress Natalia Kills promises a hot night with her provocative song “Mirrors.”
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
What actually are planets, asteroids and dwarf planets? Here, Dr. Robert Hurt from the Spitzer Science Center in California, touches upon this intriguing question. In addition, he addresses the status of Pluto and how it recently came to pass that, what was once considered our solar system's most distant planet, has recently been demoted and... why? Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
NASA and Rovio, the producers of the soon to be released video game "Angry Birds Space", are partnering to teach students of all ages about physics and space exploration. In this clip directly from the International Space Station, astronaut Don Petitt demonstrates how gravity affects trajectories of moving bodies in a space.
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