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Volcano Eruption in Papua New Guinea

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Australian tourists Linda and Philip McNamara filmed the eruption of Papua New Guinean volcano, Mount Tavurvur, on August 29. You can literally see the shockwave!

Man Dives into an Exploding Volcano

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Just when you thought your weekend plans were really exciting, a few guys had to go and jump into an active volcano. Pictures

High-Speed Canyon Jet Ski - Lake Powell GoPro

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Enjoy this beautiful GoPro footage filmed by Christian Yellott while riding his jet ski through the Mountain Sheep Canyon on Lake Powell in Utah.

This Man Takes A Tree Trunk And Turns It Into Something Really Awesome

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This man re-uses wood that has been cut down and turns it into a beautiful lampshade.

GoPro: Diver Saves Sea Turtle

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Divers off the coast of Mexico save a sea turtle that became tangled in rope.

Watch The World's Most Polite Birds Wait In Line To Greet A Potential Mate

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Instead of fighting it out with one another for a mate's affection, Blue manakins give each other a fair shot and let the lady decided. When a female manakin is feeling amorous, males will form an orderly little line in front of her, taking turns to introduce themselves and to put their colorful foliage on display.

Watch This "Octopus Houdini" Perform An Unbelievable Escape From Boat

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This octopus squeezes through a tiny gap on a boat and escape successfully!

Inside the ant colony

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Ants have one of the most complex social organizations in the animal kingdom; they live in structured colonies that contain different types of members who perform specific roles. Sound familiar? Deborah M. Gordon explains the way these incredible creatures mate, communicate and source food, shedding light on how their actions can mimic and inform our own behavior.

Kayakers Lifted Out of Water: 'We're on Top of the Whale!'

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The kayakers were paddling through a marine sanctuary near Puerto Madryn as they reached a pod of whales. They were surrounded ever so calmly, then hoisted onto the back of a whale. The duo captured the event on a GoPro camera and uploaded the incredible footage to YouTube.

Deep Sea Explorers

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While there's no shortage of weird and wacky ideas in science fiction about what creatures from other planets might look like, few are quite as remarkable as those that can actually be found right here on Earth.

Crowds Cheer as Sea Turtles Return to the Sea

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A sea turtle rescue center in North Carolina cares for and rehabilitates injured sea turtles, and returns them to the ocean amid cheering crowds. Sea turtles are resilient, but they are slow to recover. So the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center spends a lot of time and effort to help save loggerhead and other Atlantic Ocean turtles.

largest gathering of snakes anywhere in the world

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Every year, thousands of snakes gather at the Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba, Canada. It's billed as the largest gathering of snakes anywhere in the world. Manitoba's climate and geology make it the perfect place for red-sided garter snakes to live and mate. It has become a tourist attraction, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Shorebreak

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Getting tossed around by shore break and slammed into the sand day after day is a rough go; Clark little wouldn't have it any other way. in fact, for the North Shore Local, Its all in a good days work.

Magnificent Giant Tree: Sequoia in a Snowstorm

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The worlds second-largest know tree, the president, in sequoia National Park is photographed by national geographic magazine photographer Michael "nick" Nichols.

Untamed Americas - Gigantic School of Rays

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National Geographic was able to film A record-breaking school of mobula rays arriving off the coast of Baja but what they did was totally unexpected. This was a stunning show by these sleek, mysterious ocean dwellers. I wonder what they're actually doing...it almost seems like they're celebrating.

Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets

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Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets.

Watch This Smart Bird Catch Fish With Bread

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Intelligent Green Heron knows how to use bait.

Bonobo builds a fire and toasts marshmallows

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Kanzi the bonobo lives in America and has learnt how to build a fire, light it using matches and toast marshmallows on it. It shows just how like us some primates really are.

Honey Badger Houdini

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Honey badgers escape from their enclosure using anything from mud balls to rakes.

Crab amputates own limb

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It took mountain climber Aron Ralston 127 hours to amputate his own limb. But it only takes a few seconds for this crab to pull off its own claw after an unsuccessful attack from a group of birds.

The Most Amazing Thing About Trees

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Trees create immense negative pressures of 10's of atmospheres by evaporating water from nanoscale pores, sucking water up 100m in a state where it should be boiling but can't because the perfect xylem tubes contain no air bubbles, just so that most of it can evaporate in the process of absorbing a couple molecules of carbon dioxide. Now I didn't mention the cohesion of water (that it sticks to itself well) but this is implicit in the description of negative pressure, strong surface tension etc.