Untold Earth

There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights

The awe-inspiring visuals of the aurora borealis have fascinated humanity for centuries, but its most enduring mystery lies not in what we see but what some have claimed to hear for generations. Although such accounts have long been dismissed by modern science, could it be that these stories were right all along?

There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights

7m 33s

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    It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes

    S2 E10 - 8m 53s

    Lençóis Maranhenses sits at the intersection of three biomes—a rare overlap that supercharges biodiversity. Across 350 square miles of dunes, the rainy season brings thousands of crystal blue lagoons into view, many big enough to swim in. What makes this surreal environment possible? And why, even after 2 million years in existence, does it still feel so mysterious?

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    Why The World’s Rarest Fish Is Trapped In The Hottest Desert On Earth

    S2 E9 - 7m 46s

    With under 40 pupfish left in the wild, these are possibly the rarest fish on the planet. The Devils Hole pupfish have existed in isolation for thousands of years in an extreme environment where few species could survive. How did they end up in such an inhospitable place? And what makes their survival so important?

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    These Ancient Footprints Rewrite North American History

    S2 E8 - 7m 53s

    The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human footprints that suggest human presence in the Americas as much as 10,000 years earlier than previously believed. How did these footprints in the sand manage to survive for so long? And why is their discovery changing everything we thought we knew about human history in the region?

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