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‘I GOT GOOSEBUMPS’ AT ENDURANCE’S DISCOVERY

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

In today’s newsletter, we talk to a witness of an extraordinary undersea discovery, dive into Ireland's ‘hell caves’, come face-to-face with a devil in the jungle, meet the world’s first celebrity chef … and cheer for Angola’s most honored athletes.

A ship's stern and helm sunk at the bottom of the ocean.

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“Standing there, I got goosebumps.” Esther Horvath felt tears welling as she watched the discovery of polar explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton's ship the Endurance, sunken for more than a century under off the coast of Antarctica.

Horvath, the only photographer on the discovery expedition, was stunned as an underwater drone camera—10,000 feet below—got closer to a vessel that appeared intact (pictured above). “The ship looked like it sank yesterday,” Horvath recalls in this week’s Overheard, the Nat Geo podcast.

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The word Endurance remains on the side of the sunken ship.

Overcoming adversity: The 1915 sinking of the Endurance (shown above last March) stranded Shackleton and his explorers on floating sea ice as they attempted to cross the Antarctic on foot. Shackleton and his crew, in a show of mettle that enraptured generations of explorers, managed to escape Antarctica to safety. Read more.

STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

Rows of cylindrical pastries.

OLAF SPEIER/ALAMY

The world’s first celebrity chef and his culinary inventions (including the enduring vol-au-vent puff pastry, above)

Inside the Irish ‘hell caves’ where Halloween was born

Why is tuberculosis killing off this zoo’s lemurs?

Solved: The prehistoric creature behind a 115-year-old fossil mystery

Who founded India’s first great empire?

What archaeologists are learning about the ‘real’ Jesus

Far from home, a Latin American author found a suprisingly familiar new home in the U.S. Midwest

Having trouble sleeping? There’s a science to it.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

A closeup picture of a green bug with legs covered in spikes on a leaf

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAVIER AZNAR, @JAVIER_AZNAR_PHOTOGRAPHY

Face-to-face with the devil: It’s nocturnal, has six spiny legs, and is omnivorous, meaning it doesn’t have a problem chowing down on other insects. The devil katydid (Panacanthus cuspidatus), featured in a recent post on Nat Geo’s Instagram, is “one of the most unreal insects I've photographed in the Ecuadorian Amazon,” says photographer Javier Aznar.

Related: Portraits of new and unusual insects discovered in the Amazon’s canopy.

IRIDESCENT BEES AND MORE

PAID CONTENT FOR SPAIN TOURISM BOARD

PHOTO BY MATTHIEU PALEY

Charge into the gigantic landscapes of Spain’s central region

Across the plateaus of inland Spain, windmills and geological oddities are reminiscent of the muscular bodies of ancient, looming giants. The “hanging houses” of the UNESCO World Heritage city of Cuenca, along with the enchanted woodlands and plains beyond, offer any wanderer a glorious fairy-tale backdrop to swell their imagination.

THE NIGHT SKIES

Illustrations of the Pisces and Aquarius constellations appear in the sky along with the moon and three planets.

ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW FAZEKAS

Catch Saturn now: Tonight the ringed planet is on display, joined by a beautiful gibbous moon. The pair are visible rising as soon as an hour after sunset. On Friday, stargazers with binoculars may be able to spot the super-faint blue dot of Neptune passing just three degrees north of the moon. By Saturday evening look for an eye-catching pairing between Jupiter and the moon. On Sunday, the month’s full moon, dubbed the Hunter’s Moon, rises.

Related: How long is a day on Saturn?

A RINGED PLANET’S RIDDLE

LAST GLIMPSE

Two men in sport jerseys using crutches chase a soccer ball.

PHOTOGRAPH BY CELAL GUNES, ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES

Angola’s prized athletes: The soccer stars play with crutches, gliding across the pitch on one foot. Wounded by remnants of war, they are bringing glory to their nation. Of the 15 players, 12 lost their limbs from landmines that remain—two decades after the end of Angola’s civil war. The team, including Manuel Rocha (pictured above), has achieved international success and won the last four Amputee Football World Cups.

FOOTBALL IS LIFE

This newsletter has been curated and edited by Jen Tse, Sydney Combs, David Beard, and Heather Kim. Have an idea? A favorite soccer story? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]. Thanks for reading.

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