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2009
2009x1
The Virus Hunters
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Explorer investigates a provocative new theory that suggests that all life - including humans - is descended from viruses. To many people, viruses are simply agents for disease, but new evidence suggests viruses may possess far greater power.
2009x2
Italy's Mystery Mummies
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Scattered across the island of Sicily, beneath picturesque churches, are thousands of mummified bodies. And most mysterious of all is one of the last to be enshrined: shes known as the .. show full overview
2009x3
Monster Fish of the Congo
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Join a team of adventurers and scientists deep in the heart of the African Congo who are searching for an elusive man-sized predator that locals believe to be a cursed relative of the piranha, but may hold the key to evolutionary science.
2009x4
Peru's Mass Grave Mystery
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In the cloud forests of Peru are the remains a lost civilization and an ancient legend of mass murder. For hundreds of years, anthropologists have been hunting for who or what killed .. show full overview
2009x5
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
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Blue whales are the largest creatures to ever inhabit the earth - yet despite their size, we know little about them. A team of scientists set out on an expedition to unlock the secrets .. show full overview
2009x6
T. Rex Walks Again
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A full-grown T. rex could grow to 40 feet long and 12,000 pounds, but scientists believe that, at birth, these dinosaurs were the size of a mere household cat. Very little information is .. show full overview
2009x7
Inside Guantanamo
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The naval base at Guantanamo Bay secured a place in the annals of history when the first wave of detainees from Americas War on Terror men dubbed the worst of the worst arrived in 2002. .. show full overview
2009x8
Child Mummy Sacrifice
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They are perfectly preserved child mummies unearthed on top of a volcano in northwest Argentina. As young as 6 years old, these three children were chosen to die as an Incan sacrifice to their gods.
2009x9
Easter Island Underworld
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An exploration team and scientists make an attempt to map out a large cave system which runs beneath the South Pacific's Easter Island.
2009x10
Inside Death Row
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In most places death has no schedule, but in Huntsville, Texas, an average of 16 people per year are scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Inside Death Row interviews three .. show full overview
2009x11
Sex, Lies and Gender
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The gender of a newborn child is not always clearly male or female. For parents of gender variant children, the decisions they face have lifelong and sometimes horribly conflicting .. show full overview
2009x12
Chimps on the Edge
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Chimpanzees. They're our closest genetic relatives, with DNA over 98% the same as ours. Chimpanzees can learn from those around them in ways many other animals can't -- and when they're .. show full overview
2009x13
Climbing Redwood Giants
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They are living giants; one of the Earth's largest and oldest trees. Some tower more than 350 feet high, taller than the Statue of Liberty; some may have been seedlings when Jesus was .. show full overview
2009x14
Mystery of The Disembodied Feet
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Over the period of about a year, seven human feet in sneakers washed ashore in British Columbia and Washington State. Theories of serial killers, plane crashes, and tsunami victims .. show full overview
2009x15
Inside LSD
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Could LSD be the next drug in your doctor's arsenal? New experiments have a few researchers believing that this "trippy" drug could become a pharmaceutical of the future. Outlawed in .. show full overview
2009x16
Secret History of Diamonds
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The 2006 Oscar-nominated action thriller "Blood Diamond" put the issue of conflict diamonds into the public eye. Now, NGC takes an in-depth look at these international symbols of wealth .. show full overview
2009x17
24 Hours After Asteroid Impact
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Explorer travels back 66 million years to break down the chain of events that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and changed the world forever. Visit a high-tech NASA lab where .. show full overview
2009x18
Nazi Mystery: Twins from Brazil
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Joseph Mengele, the escaped Nazi war criminal and SS physician, known as the Angel of Death, spent years doing bizarre medical experiments on twins at Auschwitz working to determine if .. show full overview
2009x19
Narco State
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Follow the police as they investigate the latest drug-related kidnapping, uncover marijuana and ambush suspects at a ransom drop-off.

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