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African Wild Dog Pups, Botswana, 1999
Photograph by Chris Johns
A trio of young African wild dog pups plays near a den in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Thought to be domesticated dogs gone feral, wild dogs have borne the brunt of extensive extermination programs. Today there are fewer than 5,000 wild dogs alive, which make them Africa's most endangered large carnivore.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Africa's Wild Dogs," May 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Trampoline Jumper, Tennessee, 2001
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi
A jumper vaults out of frame on a backyard trampoline in Dayton, Tennessee. Now a quiet community of about 6,500, this Bible Belt town was the site of the famous 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, in which Dayton teacher John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law against teaching evolution in public schools.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "ZipUSA: Dayton, Tennessee," September 2001, National Geographic magazine)
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West Indian Manatee, Florida, 1998
Photograph by Wes Skiles
A West Indian manatee drifts through crystal-clear water in a North Florida spring. Hundreds of these gentle giants migrate from coastal habitats to the springs each winter to bask in their constant and comparatively balmy 72-degree Fahrenheit (22-degree Celsius) waters.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Unlocking the Labyrinth of North Florida Spring," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Sky Disk at Twilight, Germany, 2004
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett
Found buried in a hill in the town of Nebra in 1600 B.C., this 3,600-year-old sky disk reflects cloud-strewn skies in central Germany. The disk, which tracks the sun's movements along the horizon, contains the oldest known depiction of the night sky and may have served as an agricultural and spiritual calendar.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Star Search," January 2004, National Geographic magazine)
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Swakopmund Dune Fields, Namibia, 2000
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
Wind-sculpted dunes sprawl across the Sesriem and Sossusvlei dune area in Namibia's Namib Desert. The Namib is a cool, coastal desert that roughly translates to "an area where there is nothing" in the Nama language. It is known for its dramatic dunes, including the crescent-shaped barchan dunes shown here, some of which can reach 100 feet (30 meters) high and 1,200 feet (370 meters) wide.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "New Eyes on the Oceans," October 2000, National Geographic magazine)
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Butterfly on Leaf, Borneo, Malaysia, 2001
Photograph by Timothy Laman
Under the cover of darkness, a butterfly with folded wings rests gracefully on a leaf in the Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah, Borneo. The 170-square-mile (438-square-kilometer) conservation area is the largest undisturbed lowland rain forest in Malaysia, home to one of the world's most complex ecosystems.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Night Shift in the Rain Forest," October 2001, National Geographic magazine)
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Aerial View, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, 2002
Photograph by Frans Lanting
The jagged University Range in Alaska's snow-draped St. Elias Mountains blushes red in the Arctic twilight. Many peaks in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park remain unnamed—and unclimbed—more than 20 years after the park was established.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Alaska's Giant of Ice and Stone," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)
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Orchid, 2004
Photograph by Robert Clark
For legendary 19th-century scientist Charles Darwin, orchids, like the dew-beaded beauty shown here, epitomized the theory of natural selection, the belief that plants and animals evolve with traits favoring survival and reproductive success. By this measure orchids are a sensational success, with 24,000 species and 60,000 registered hybrids, far more than any other flowering plant on Earth.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Was Darwin Wrong?" November 2004, National Geographic magazine)
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Dinosaur Fossils, Niger, 1997
Photograph by George Steinmetz
In Niger's Ténéré desert, a ridge of protruding bones suggests a dramatically different past. Millions of years ago, the parched plains of the Ténéré were spread with thick forests and broad rivers home to crocodiles, turtles, fish, and dinosaurs, including Suchomimus tenerensis, a recently discovered crocodile-like creature.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Journey to the Heart of the Sahara," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Monkeys at Watering Hole, India, 1997
Photograph by Michael Nichols
A troop of Hanuman langur monkeys drinks from a watering hole used by tigers in India's Bandhavgarh National Park. Named after the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, these lanky, long-tailed monkeys are found in the humid forests, swamps, and even urban areas of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar (Burma).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)
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Honeybees, Maine, 2007
Photograph by Peter Essick
Swarming honeybees, like these on Maine's Appledore Island, frequently differ about where to establish a new nest. But the group usually chooses the best site. Bees reach this decision by gathering information, conducting independent evaluations, and holding a kind of vote. Scientists are studying such swarm intelligence—note the yellow and blue identifier dots on the bees in this photo—for clues about how humans might manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for "Swarm Theory," July 2007, National Geographic magazine)
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Monaco Cathedral, Monaco, 1996
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
Built in 1875 from white stone from La Turbie, a French alpine village, the neo-Romanesque Monaco Cathedral houses the tombs of former princes and Princess Grace. Monaco occupies a rocky strip of land on France's Mediterranean coast, but its size belies its reputation as one of the world's most upscale resort destinations known for glitz, glamour, and the good life.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Monaco," May 1996, National Geographic magazine)
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Courtyard, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2003
Photograph by Brooks Walker
Switzerland's capital of dirndls and schnitzel, Lucerne is known for the Alpine charm of its snowcapped mountains, green vistas, and slice-of-life vignettes like this cobblestone courtyard.
The city of 60,000 sits in the center of Switzerland at the northwest end of Lake Lucerne. Encircled by a photogenic range of mountains and bisected by the River Reuss, Lucerne is beloved for its storybook charm.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Living Lucerne," January/February 2003, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Coiled Jararaca Snake, Brazil, 2001
Photograph by George Grall
A young jararaca snake lies coiled on a mossy piece of ground in the Brazilian rain forest. These venomous pit vipers, members of the lancehead, or fer-de-lance, family, are common throughout their range and are responsible for a large number of snakebites in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fragile World of Frogs," May 2001, National Geographic magazine)
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Car in Motion, Big Sur, California, 2000
Photograph by Frans Lanting
A car speeds past a rock formation on the roadside in Big Sur, California. Each year more than three million visitors navigate the treacherous turns of Highway 1 near Big Sur, drawn by the plunging gorges, fog-strewn coves, exploding surf, and tortuous geography—5,000-foot (1,524-meter) summits plummet abruptly to the ocean—of California's dramatic 90-mile (145-kilometer) coast.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Big Sur: California's Elemental Coast," August 2000, National Geographic magazine)
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Humpback Whale, South Africa, 2002
Photograph by David Doubilet
Forty tons of gleaming muscle, a humpback whale blasts out of the water near South Africa. Found in coastal waters worldwide, humpbacks are known for their magical songs, haunting sequences of moans, howls, cries, and other noises that often continue for hours on end. Scientists believe they communicate and attract mates through song.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Oceans of Plenty," August 2002, National Geographic magazine)
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Insect Eaten Leaf, Puerto Rico, 2004
Photograph by Peter Essick
Light permeates an insect-eaten leaf in Caribbean National Forest, Puerto Rico. The only tropical rain forest in the United States' national forest system, Caribbean National Forest is a 28,000-acre (11,330-hectare) preserve to the east of the capital, San Juan. It receives, on average, a whopping 15 feet (4.5 meters) of rain each year.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Case of the Missing Carbon," February 2004, National Geographic magazine)
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Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 2000
Photograph by James Stanfield
Built as the hilltop home of Athens's patron goddess, Athena, the Acropolis—and its most famous
structure, the Parthenon, at right—recall the classical area of the ancient city-state that witnessed a
brilliant flowering of art, architecture, philosophy, and democracy in the fifth century B.C. Today,
government, tourism, and shipping dominate the economy in Greece's modern-day capital.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Alexander the Conqueror," March 2000, National
Geographic magazine)
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Striped Cricket on Leaf, Southeast Asia, 2001
Photograph by Timothy Laman
Stripes meet stars in this night shot of a cricket in a Southeast Asian forest. In jungles throughout the world, the sinking sun summons a menagerie of rarely seen creatures that slither, leap, and buzz while the forest's more familiar creatures sleep.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Night Shift in the Rain Forest," October 2001, National Geographic magazine)
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Fruit Bats at Dusk, Zambia, 2007
Photograph by Frans Lanting
Epauletted fruit bats speckle a saffron-colored sky at sunset in Zambia's Luangwa Valley. Millions of these bats come to roost in the valley's trees and feed off the explosion of fruits during the rainy season, when the Luangwa River overflows its banks and transforms the dry, dusty landscape into an emerald wildlife paradise.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Waiting for Thunder," May 2007, National Geographic magazine)
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