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  1. We enter the tonight at 9/8c. Will you be watching?

  2. Friday Fact: Lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano when ash and rock fragments collide and produce static charges.

  3. Watch this athletic kangaroo take a morning swim on Australia's North Stradbroke Island

  4. Can a cat-proof fence save Hawaii’s endangered birds?

  5. Tonight on , the Marsh Pride works to protect its vast empire by power and force.

  6. High-elevation racing phenom Mira Rai is on a mission to help the women of Nepal through sports.

  7. Editor's Favorite: Milky Skies

  8. This real-life horrific quest for survival is what inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

  9. Of all the invertebrates, why do scientists say octopuses are the ones that seem the most like us?

  10. From Banff's rugged peaks to the canals of Hamburg, Germany, here's where to travel in 2017

  11. Video: Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of .

  12. Find out where to hike, bike, paddle, eat, imbibe, and sleep—plus a few surprises only the locals know.

  13. Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans live mostly solitary lives.

  14. Editor's Favorite: Milky Skies

  15. How will a warming climate change our most beloved national parks?

  16. A new collection of maps shows off the skill and creativity of today’s cartographers.

  17. You can join the next mission here:

  18. Read about the much-mythologized meal.

  19. Watch seven unique orangutan behaviors that researchers have observed in the wild

  20. Editor's Favorite: A Day in the Park

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