Near-Death Experiences, Loch Ness Camera Trap, And Why No Frozen Dinosaurs?

This week on Break It Down: study uncovers the biological basis of near-death experiences, what a camera trap captured after 55 years in Loch Ness, why it’s taken humans so long to orbit over Earth’s poles, what a sediment core from the “Great Blue Hole” can tell us about the Caribbean’s climatic past and future, why you shouldn’t offer cola to isolated communities, and why are there no frozen dinosaurs? With damn good reason.

So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…

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Near-death experiences

Loch Ness camera trap

Loch Ness holograms

Loch Ness DNA

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Orbiting Earth's poles

Chundering in space

Drilling the great blue hole

Don’t offer cola to isolated tribes

Why no frozen dinosaurs?

How fast to fossil

Fossil octopus

CURIOUS magazine

Keep an eye out for NHM videos

Deep sea beasties

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