Nature » Mole http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature The premier natural history series Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Beauty of Ugly: Introduction http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-beauty-of-ugly/introduction/425/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-beauty-of-ugly/introduction/425/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:18:50 +0000 admin http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/2008/06/10/overview-9/ In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren’t everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures — from warthogs and proboscis monkeys to bull elephant seals — are also the most fascinating. A stunning variety of these ghastly yet glorious forms are explored in NATURE’s The Beauty of Ugly.

On the Web site for The Beauty of Ugly, you’ll get an in-depth look at some of these intriguing creatures. You’ll learn about the remarkable sensory abilities of the weird little star-nosed mole and the unusual social system of naked mole-rats and their imperious mole-rat queen, discover the threats faced by the Cape Griffon vulture, and get a fish-eye’s view of the needle-toothed viperfish and other deep-sea creatures, as photographed by a unique undersea camera called the Eye-in-the-Sea, designed by ocean researcher Dr. Edith Widder.

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Online content for The Beauty of Ugly was originally posted online November 2007.

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