See what you probably couldn't view earlier today, unless you were in Asia: The longest total solar eclipse of the entire 21st century. Other eclipses may be longer, but none will see the sun totally eclipsed for so long. Video.
For the first time, Florida is allowing select hunters to kill pythons in the wild. The non-native snakes are believed to number in the tens of thousands and are killing endangered species, experts say. Video.
Apollo 11 has never looked better: See NASA's newly restored video of the first ever moonwalks in 1969—and find out what it took to capture it. Apollo 11 video.
The total solar eclipse on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, will be the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century. Preview the eclipse via animations and more. Video.
Vampire bats in Peru are increasingly biting people, and a National Geographic researcher is trying to find ways to stem the resulting spread of deadly rabies. Video.
Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls—a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Video.
A favorite of divers in Australia, the blue groper grows to about three feet (one meter) long and can change its own sex. But its numbers are diving, and researchers are trying to throw the groper a lifeline. Video.
In the first goring death at Spain's running of the bulls since 1995, a 27-year-old was killed Friday after a bull became separated from the pack. Video.
Two years after most of Russia's geysers were lost in a landslide, a peculiar geyser has emerged on the Kamchatka Peninsula that spouts water every 6 to 20 minutes.Video.
About two thousand people took to the streets of Pamplona for the first of eight bull runs, finishing the course in a quick two-and-a-half minutes.Video.
An Argentine official is suggesting people adopt mosquito-munching frogs—not chemicals—as a solution to an outbreak of the disease dengue fever, which is spread by the insects.Video.
To help revive the Przewalski's horse, or takhi, in Mongolia, a Washington, D.C.-area zoo facility hosted the first ever reverse vasectomy on the species. Video.
Migaloo, a twentysomething rare white humpback whale was seen this week along Australia's east coast, where he's migrating northward with other humpbacks. Video.
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