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HOW OUR CONTEST-WINN= ING PHOTO WAS MADE
Saturday, February 18, 2023
In today’s newsletter, <= /em>we talk dragons with the daring= photographer who won our annual photo contest, hop along with= Scotland’s cool (but threatened) mountain hares, go snorkeling with a POTUS, and learn how lifestyle choices really could extend our live= s =2E=2E=2E Plus, do you know which single preside= nt that U=2ES=2E Presidents Day is supposed to observe?
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The way the bald eagle swooped in—and menaced eagles already pe= rched on a tree—reminded photographer Karthik Sub= ramaniam of A Dance with Dragons, the fictiona= l dragon war by Games of Thrones novelist George R=2ER=2E Martin=2E

Subramaniam's photograph, m= ade in the last few hours of his trip to Alaska, took the grand prize in th= e National Geographic Pictures of the Year contest, ear= ning a spot in our May edition of the magazine=2E The San Francisco softwar= e engineer’s entry was chosen from nearly 5,000 submissions=2E
See the full story here=2E

Please consider gett= ing our full digital report and our magazine by subscribing here=2E
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The finalists: The contest’s runnerups = represented a broad spectrum=2E Above, riding through the Austrian Alps, Alex Berger took a one-lane road alongside a smal= l stream—and found this golden tree blooming in a forest=2E There&#x= 2019;s “a fantasy-ish inspired dimension for me,” says Berger= , “which gives me goosebumps=2E”
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PHOTOGRAPH BY ERIC ES= TERLE, = @ERICESTERLEPHOTO
The eagle hunter: Asiilbek, a nomadic Kazakh e= agle hunter, preps his golden eagle, Burged, fo= r a horseback hunt in the grasslands of western Mongolia=2E “For thi= s image, I was lying on my stomach in the prone position looking through th= e electronic viewfinder at the edge of the stream,” says photographe= r Eric Esterle=2E “The ground shook as A= siilbek's horse passed less than a few feet away, splashing me with ice col= d water=2E”
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From the air: These are salt marsh ponds in Sa= n Jose, California=2E These unique urban marshlands are being threatened by= rising sea levels, and conservation projects are racing to turn back time = and restore the region for wildlife and fish—and also for absorbing = floodwaters and capturing carbon dioxide=2E See the other= finalists—and Nat Geo's ph= otos of the year=2E
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Aliens weren’t in those UFO shootdowns= =2E But in Area 51, tourists believe the truth is out there=2E (Above, high-schoolers wearing alien masks in another UFO ‘ce= nter,’ Roswell, New Mexico=2E)
Freezing your = eggs is a big decisions=2E Here’s what the science says=2E
This Nat Geo photographer ha= d an unusual assignment: Go snorkeling with the president=2E
New findings on the ‘= good’ fat that could keep you youthful
What would you do, caught face t= o face with a rarely glimpsed 30-foot sea ‘monster’?
= Where did a powerful Biblical empire go? Researchers now have a clue=2E
These stunning monuments to love were made by = women
How liquid bio= psies have made it easier to treat cancer
Presidents Day technically celeb= rates only one president=2E Which one?
Be smart: Lifestyle choices real= ly could extend your life
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PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDY PA= RKINSON

In its glory: The United Kingdom’s = only native species of hare or rabbit has a thick, insulated pelt of brilli= ant white or dove gray as camouflage during the winter months=2E But with c= limate change, snowy conditions happen less often, leaving the animal expos= ed to predators and perhaps better off with its summer coat of mousy brown,= Nat Geo reports=2E (Pictured above, a hare blends into a snowbank in Scotland’s M= onadhliath Mountains=2E)
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Who’s hungry? In southwest England,= a kingfisher attempts to feed her chicks at their riverbank nest=2E Kingfi= shers, despite being exquisitely handsome, are born blind, bald, and ugly&#= x2014;recalling the ugly duckling story=2E Mum and dad feed the chicks all = day long for nearly a month, catching small fish along the river and bringi= ng them back to the nest—a tunnel dug into the bank, with a small ch= amber at the end=2E Inside, it's almost completely dark, so the parents wor= k by touch to find an open beak=2E Nat Geo Explorer Charlie Hamilton James talks about his photography on th= e birds on an episode of Overhead, our podcast=2E
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Speechless: While on assignment for a story on humpback whales in 1999, writer Dougl= as H=2E Chadwick felt the sounds from the whale above vibrate in h= is bones=2E “Forty feet of solid whale passed so close that I could = have reached out and touched its eye,” he says=2E “We were le= ft hovering nose to nose=2E The moment probably called for profound thought= s, but I couldn't have told you my name=2E” Tomorrow marks World Wha= le Day=2E

Related: Humpback songs use rhyme, rhythm, and melody—a= nd trendy new beats spread around the world

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Today’s soundtrack: Edith and the Kingpin, Herbie Hancock and Tina Turner

This newsletter has been curated and edited by= David Beard, Jen Tse, and Sydney Combs=2E Amanda Williams-Bryant, Alec Ega= mov, Rita Spinks, and Jeremy Brandt-Vorel also contributed this week=2E Hav= e an idea? We’d love to hear from you at david=2Ebeard@natgeo=2Ecom=2E Thanks for reading!
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