Body Collecting

Body Collecting

A volunteer team of body collectors believe they'll get spiritual merit for carefully handling corpses.

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Bad Mother? Burying Beetles Raise Their Young With Animal Corpses

Bad Mother? Burying Beetles Raise Their Young With Animal Corpses

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NG Live!: From Revenge to Reconciliation

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NG Live!: Alison Wright: Portraits of the Human Spirit

Body Farm

A Scavenger's Sleeping Habits

A Scavenger's Sleeping Habits

India Man Plants Forest Bigger Than Central Park to Save His Island

India Man Plants Forest Bigger Than Central Park to Save His Island

Asher Jay: Art of the Matter

Asher Jay: Art of the Matter

See How Easily a Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet

See How Easily a Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet

Here, Living With Dead Bodies for Weeks—Or Years—Is Tradition

Here, Living With Dead Bodies for Weeks—Or Years—Is Tradition

This Intimate Look at a Woman's Last Days Will Touch Your Soul

This Intimate Look at a Woman's Last Days Will Touch Your Soul

Capturing Death: What One Photographer Learned on Assignment

Capturing Death: What One Photographer Learned on Assignment

One Man’s Mission to Revive the Last Redwood Forests

One Man’s Mission to Revive the Last Redwood Forests

Why Hundreds of Sea Otters Died in the Pacific

Why Hundreds of Sea Otters Died in the Pacific

Rare Footage: Wild Elephants “Mourn” Their Dead

Rare Footage: Wild Elephants “Mourn” Their Dead

Before "Black Lives Matter": A 1959 Speech About Police Brutality

Before "Black Lives Matter": A 1959 Speech About Police Brutality

EXCLUSIVE: A Closer Look Inside Christ's Unsealed Tomb

EXCLUSIVE: A Closer Look Inside Christ's Unsealed Tomb

Watch: Snake "Plays Dead" When Threatened

Watch: Snake "Plays Dead" When Threatened

This Artist's Amazing Transformation Will Blow Your Mind

This Artist's Amazing Transformation Will Blow Your Mind

This Amazing Musical 'Coffin Club' Will Make You Want to Join

This Amazing Musical 'Coffin Club' Will Make You Want to Join

What is Day of the Dead?

What is Day of the Dead?

Drowning in Grain: A Look at the Hidden Dangers of Farming

Drowning in Grain: A Look at the Hidden Dangers of Farming

'Skunk Pigs' May Mourn Their Dead, Footage Shows

'Skunk Pigs' May Mourn Their Dead, Footage Shows

Go Inside Lithuania's Hill of Crosses

Go Inside Lithuania's Hill of Crosses

Plague 101

Watch One Family's Journey Through A Life-Changing Face Transplant

Watch One Family's Journey Through A Life-Changing Face Transplant

Trailer: Katie's New Face

Trailer: Katie's New Face

Here's What Happens After an Elephant Dies

Here's What Happens After an Elephant Dies

See what happens after a mass whale stranding

See what happens after a mass whale stranding

[Excerpt] Becoming Immortal

[Excerpt] Becoming Immortal

Trailer: Becoming Immortal

Trailer: Becoming Immortal

She donated her body to science, and now she'll live forever

She donated her body to science, and now she'll live forever

Watch how these women are saving black mothers’ lives

Watch how these women are saving black mothers’ lives

Watch the first confirmed video of what could be hippos grieving

Watch the first confirmed video of what could be hippos grieving

Blood Initiation

Blood Initiation

Cave of Spirits

Cave of Spirits

Duck Fetus Dinner

Duck Fetus Dinner

Santeria

Living in Tombs

Living in Tombs

Eating Bats

Firewalking

Drinking Absinthe

Drinking Absinthe

Eating Live Octopus

Eating Live Octopus

Thaipusam

Speaking to the Dead

Speaking to the Dead

Apache Girl's Rite of Passage

Apache Girl's Rite of Passage

Scarification

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