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|     1:56    |     101 SHORTS    | See How America Celebrated the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Missing the excitement from Monday’s total solar eclipse? Now you can relive that day, as members of the National Geographic family shared their experiences witnessing this spectacular phenomenon. There was so much anticipation as we viewed what was captured from the field, and I couldn’t help but feel joy as Americans across the country joined together and shared the enthusiasm and awe of watching the eclipse. —Jennifer Murphy, producer/editor WATCH NOW SHARE

|     1:19    |     NEWS    | Hawk Raised by Eagles Is Starting to Act Like One A popular genre of viral videos shows adorable scenes of interspecies cooperation. Often, these are the result of animals being brought together by people for rehabilitation or adoption. But in this case, the family doing the adopting is a nest of eagles that are raising a baby red-tailed hawk—typically a rival species—alongside their own chicks. Observers feared the hawk wouldn’t survive long. But weeks later, the hawk was still thriving, showing a mix of behaviors typical of its genetic and adoptive families. —Jim Burch, editor WATCH NOW SHARE

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|     3:54    |     101 VIDEOS    | Everything You Want to Know About Octopuses While working on this video, our team learned that octopuses’ circulatory and nervous systems are rather complicated. We could have done simple B-roll shots over our narrator explaining these concepts, but we gained access to an infographic that the graphics team had created for a magazine story, animated it—and were able to really make that part of the video come alive. —Dan Steinmetz, senior editor WATCH NOW SHARE

|     1:16    |     NEWS    | See Divers Rescue Four Car-Sized Sharks Sea life bycatch can be an out-of-sight and out-of-mind problem. But fishing nets pose some of the greatest threats to our oceans’ largest inhabitants. These four whale sharksaccidentally swam into a net—most likely searching for food. It’s heart-wrenching to see them desperately trying to escape. Luckily this story has a happy ending, after a team of divers came and rescued them. —Nick Lunn, editor WATCH NOW SHARE

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