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With wings spread and head held high, this Adélie penguin presents a dapper figure as it waddles through an Antarctic colony.
Just announced for @MetaVR_Official are two brand news ways to experience storytelling here at Industrial Light & Magic! “Disney Immersive Cinema by ILM” and “National Geographic: Beyond”.
Learn more about the collaboration with @Lucasfilm, @MarvelStudios, and @NatGeo here:
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How do you travel faster than the speed of light? You have to take one of the universe's back doorways.
Discover more about LOST IN SPACE: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe:
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You don't need thousands of dollars of camera equipment to photograph the night sky. With a smartphone and guidance from astrophotographer Sadeq Hayati, you can learn how to capture phenomena like the Milky Way, star trails, and the northern lights. 🔗
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School looks a little different for loon chicks. During their first 12 weeks, they learn essential survival skills from their parents, including how to swim, dive, and forage.
#InsideTheEnchantedWaterways# is now streaming on @DisneyPlus.
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August’s Photos of the Day encompassed bursts of color in Nebraska's sky, a flamboyance of flamingos, and seal pups taking their first dips in the ocean. Nat Geo’s photography department picked 23 classic images to highlight alongside the stories behind them. 🔗
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Hollywood takes plenty of liberties with Ancient Rome—but gladiators really were sex symbols. While most looked nothing like the sculpted heroes portrayed on screen, multiple sources reveal why Roman society found these fighters so irresistible. 🔗
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Presented by @ROLEX. National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes has spent his life exploring Africa’s wild places and studying the patterns of the continent's wildlife. He approaches conservation through the lens of science, exploration, and—most importantly—hope.
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A new species of cat has been identified for the first time in a century—and experts think that there may be even more to discover around the world:
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise:
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During WWI, journalist Harriet Chalmers Adams traveled to wartime Lorraine, documenting a landscape where beautiful villages and the scars of war existed side by side. Her 1917 account offers a glimpse of France during this turbulent time. 🔗
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Presented by @Rolex. Get ready to explore the heart of our wildest continent like never before. 🌍
Through its partnership with the National Geographic Society and as part of its Perpetual Planet Initiative, #Rolex# supports expeditions exploring and protecting remarkable places around the world, a selection of which are featured in Africa Earth’s Wild Home. #PerpetualPlanet#
#AfricaEarthsWildHome# premieres Friday, October 2 at 8/7c on National Geographic. Streaming next day on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.
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Off Pebbles Beach in Barbados, photographer Ana Elisa Sotelo joined horse handler Glenfield Clarke on a morning swim with a racehorse named Zorah. Sotelo says she was mesmerized by the way the horse and groom seemed to “become kind of like one creature.”
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Millions of years from now, the traces of our lives will be buried in Earth’s layers. Plastics, silicon chips, concrete, and other technofossils may offer future archaeologists a record of how we lived, consumed, and reshaped the planet. 🔗
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Nearly 5,000 years ago, the people of the Indus Valley Civilization built Mohenjo Daro. Filmmakers Haya Fatima Iqbal and Nadir Siddiqui charted this ancient city from above—and they took National Geographic readers along for the journey. 🔗
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Everest: The Other Side is "nail-biting", “thrilling", and "exhilarating"!
Experience it only in theaters and IMAX worldwide on October 30.
Presented by @Rolex. Welcome to Africa 🌍 Africa Earth's Wild Home takes you deep into the heart of our wildest continent, bringing you closer to its animals, landscapes, and the people watching over it than ever before.
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When 33 men were trapped underground in a collapsed mine, the entire world followed their struggle for survival and the race to get them out.
#ChileanMineRescue#: Race Against Time premieres September 25 at 8/7c on National Geographic. Streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu
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High school teacher Kent Hups made history when he discovered the first adult T. rex trackway last year. Working with National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson, the pair excavated five footprints, each preserved as a 3D shape in ancient rocks:
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A baby auk learns how to fly in the most extreme way possible, but it's got support as it takes its first airborne journey.
#IncredibleAnimalJourneys# is now streaming on @DisneyPlus
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