Greg Chapman - Research
The final day of Dog Whisperer Week is here and everyone here at the channel hopes that you have enjoyed watching some of Cesar's toughest cases. Here are some final tips to help you become a more passionate, assertive and successful pack leader.Enjoy!

	Prevent obsessive behavior by establishing rules, limits and boundaries early and consistently.
	Setting rules will help, not hurt your dog. He or she will see you as a strong pack leader.
	Who you are to your dog is the energy you project. A pack leader’s energy is calm & assertive.
	Give dogs affection when they’re doing what you want.
	Everyone in the family must be on the same team when trying to get rid of unwanted behaviors in your dog.
	Controlling dogs of any size requires mental strength. Leadership is always your most powerful tool!
	Being self-aware and conscious of the energy we are projecting can help us become better pack leaders.
	Choose a breed that fits your lifestyle. Couch potato or always on-the-go, the right dog is out there!

Greg Chapman - Research
Day five of Dog Whisperer Week brings you more online tips from Cesar and tonights episodes should help you out even more. Enjoy!

	Training your dog is kind of like being on a diet! Lasting results take time, patience, & consistency.
	A dog’s bad habits should never be tolerated. Remember, no attention unless they are calm and submissive.
	Your dog’s misbehavior could be a reflection of your own. You’ll both benefit from being calm and assertive.
	Facing a hostile dog? Don’t panic, stand firm; own the space. Don’t make eye contact or move until he backs off.
	Eye contact is often a challenge to dogs. You can ease tension with my “no touch, no talk, no eye contact” rule.
	Laughter isn’t the best medicine when it comes to dogs’ bad behavior. What you find funny is actually instability.
	Dogs need rules. If there's no strong, assertive pack leader, they'll learn to do things their way, not yours!
	Make a difference in the lives of homeless dogs. Volunteer at your local animal shelter!

Tomorrow is the final day of Dog Whisperer Week, so be sure to come back and visit for the last series of tips for your pooch and you!

Greg Chapman - Research

Being that National Geogrpahic Channel is in the middle of Dog Whisperer Week, I thought that it might be a good idea to pass along more of Cesar's tips to all you pack leaders out there.

	Bored dogs are problem dogs. Brisk morning walks prevent behavioral problems during the day.
	Learn the art of the walk: head up, relaxed leash, with the dog next to you not ahead of you.
	The dog park is great for socialization, but don’t let it be the dog’s only source of exercise.
	Confident owners can help dogs get over what frightens them using calm, assertive energy.
	Tired dogs are better behaved dogs! Two 40-minute walks a day help burn off excessive energy.
	Got a pushy pooch? Teach him good manners. Don’t touch or look at him until he is calm & submissive.
	Dogs’ fears are often human-induced. Help them by replacing a scary association with a positive experience.
	Dogs help us grow emotionally and psychologically.

Check back in tomorrow for more helpful hints straight from the Dog Whisperer.

You can check out the shows offical site by clicking here.

Greg Chapman - Research

First, if you are heading out of the city this weekend to the country for the holiday weekend, or have the benefit of living in a place where you can actually see stars, take a look through a telescope because there lies a bonus for you this week. Mars is best seen This week marks the closest distance between Earth and Mars since 2003 and the closest that they will be until 2016.

Earth's Neighbor, Mars

Although the best views of Mars occurred on Tuesday when the two planets were the closest, the red planet should be able to be seen through the end of next month, which means that star gazers could be in store for something remarkable.

At the end of next month, according to NASA scientists, there is a 1 in 75 chance that the planet could be struck by an asteroid on January 30. To put it in some perspective, the usual odds of something like this occuring is 1 in 350 and scientists believe that the odds will only be shrinking as we head in to January.

NASA scientists are stating that the impact of this asteroid on Mars could be equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb blast , and would be the size of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona.

For videos about Mars and other corners of the universe, click here.

With the holiday season in full swing, The Green Guide offers up some ways to have a greener holiday.

Wrap Responsibly
'Tis the season of giving, receiving and of throwing away. Americans toss out an extra 25 million tons of trash over the holidays, largely due to packaging. After the Christmas morning revels in my house, we labor to find the floor (much less the cat) buried under layers of used gift wrap. But when it comes time to clean up, we take great care to neatly roll and fold the glittery paper and tuck it away for reuse. Once that paper has wrapped its last gift and it's time to buy a new roll, we don't. Instead, we scan the house for other ways to wrap. This year, I'll be getting some use out of an old Ace of Base poster that came off the wall ages ago. And some sheer curtains that are a bit too Moulin Rouge for window dressing will become lovely Victorian-inspired packaging. Whenever possible, I won't be wrapping gifts at all, but rather, the wrapping will be the gift. Mom is getting a recycled glass jewelry in the pocket of a Livity hemp wallet, and my brother is taking home a pocket LED flashlight slipped inside a Klean Kanteen reusable water bottle (adorned with an organic cotton bow cut from an old t-shirt of course).

Not everyone has as much potential gift wrap lying around. Others are tightly bound to the paper tradition. If your wrapping paper habit is too ingrained to quit cold turkey, at least wrap responsibly. Look for paper made from tree-free materials like Papermojo's lokta or banana fiber sheets, or from post-consumer waste like Seltzer's 100 percent post-consumer recycled gift wrap.

Magnum Force
Whether it be a crimson pinot noir or a sparkling cava brut, elegant bottles of wine are a festive addition to holiday dinner tables around the world. But the beloved grape juice comes with an environmental cost. The bulk of the world's wine is cultivated in three countries--France, Italy and Spain--where it's loaded into fossil-fuel-guzzling trucks and airplanes to make its way to dinner. And in the United States, the fourth largest wine producer, 90 percent of the yield comes from California. The American Association of Wine Economists estimates global greenhouse gas emissions from wine production and distribution to be 5,336,600 tons--roughly the same amount that one million passenger vehicles would emit in a year.

Because shipping wine typically involves moving lots of heavy glass filled with some less-heavy wine, a local tipple greatly reduces the carbon output of the holiday toast. But if your preferences lean toward wines from a region far from home, buying local is not an option. The good news is that the bigger the bottle, the smaller the carbon impact per ounce. Larger bottles also cut back on glass packaging, which is costly to recycle and frequently ends up in landfills. On dinner outings with large groups of people, order a 1.5 liter (L) magnum that holds eight glasses rather than two .75 L bottles. Heller Estate's 2002 Organic Cachagua Cabernet Sauvignon ($45/1.5 L) is lovely and affordable for large dinner parties. For a splurge, try their 1997 Organic Signature Release Cabernet Sauvignon ($200/1.5 L) with flavors of ripe berry fruits, jammy cassis and dark chocolate. And if you're really thirsty, you can pick up a 1995 Cabernet Sauvignon in a three-liter bottle for $260. The more, the merrier...

Dr. Mike and one of his best buddies

Dr. Mike - Veterinarian

Porto is a great dog. He was always very energetic and seemed to enjoy his visits to the vet’s office. He is very gentle and laid back – ready to except what the world gave him and make the most of it. He did not seem overburdened by his problems.

Bruno was a tough case because you could see a dog wanting to come out of the restrictions his disease gave him, but he could never really do it. Lots of times with a dog like Bruno, I will say their quality of life is not acceptable, but there was something in his eyes that made me want to try a little harder with him. I feel very sad about his case because of this. We could see glimmers of hope, but they never really materialized. It was horrible that he had to go the way he did (with GDV), but it was better than if we prolonged his condition that it did not seem he was going to recover from. I remember when my dog Scruffy tried to play with him (or dominate him – its hard to tell with Scruffy) that it made Bruno mad, but he wasn’t able to do anything about it. He did like my old lady Dalmatian named Dottie. Bruno and Dottie would go for little walks together outside in it was nice to see Bruno wag his tail and get a little bit excited. With dogs like Bruno, I am always hoping to get a glimpse of what they would have been like as a young, healthy dog; sadly, it never happened with him.

Zoeyann was very shy and hesitant. She was easy to work with, but she did not warm up to me in the same way Porto had – perhaps it was too many vet visits at such a young age. By the end of the appointment, she was a little friendlier, but was always a little hesitant. I think she liked being with the dogs more than me.

Best Friends/DogTown is an example of what is possible if people who care about something work together to achieve that goal. It is not an endpoint in the animal rights/rescue movement, but a nice stopping point on the way to end the suffering of animals. It is about the individual animal as well and what can be achieved if an animal is just given a chance to thrive and be loved. It is not perfect, and there is more we can do, but we certainly are able to help a lot of animals and can be used as a model for what is possible. It is great because it shows there are other options for many animals and that, although ending the treatment of animals as disposable beings is a long war, there are battles being fought and won that are making it a fight worth fighting.

You can preview an overview of DogTown by clicking here and if you want to see a clip from the first episode, Crisis Dogs, click here.

Greg Chapman - Research

It may be a long ways away before it premieres, but I just watched the trailer for an upcoming show called Six Degrees Could Change the World. It is a show that looks at the impact of global warming and what would happen to earth as it heats up degree after degree for the next one hundred years, (degrees are in celsius, not fahrenheit). It was powerful enough that I thought the readers of this blog may have some comments of their own about what they think of the current state of the global climate may be or about a show like this. (You can check out the trailer by clicking on the logo or the photo below.)

Needless to say it is something that I have thought about more and more lately. I have tried to do simple things such as carrying groceries so that there is one less empty plastic bag floating around to actually getting rid of my car because I live in a city - I don't have a specific need for one, which may not be for everyone, but I figured I can get around pretty well without a car so why not.

What do you think?

With the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on one side and the Muslim Noble Sanctuary - Haram al Sharif - on the other, Jerusalem can be said to be the intersection of three major religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. National Geographic Channel goes to this sacred place to display how one unique area in the world ties together three major religions.

A story of worship...and war...inside Jerusalem’s Holiest Sites airs Wednesday, December 19 at 9p et/pt.

In this country alone, between 3 and 4 million unwanted pets are euthanized every year. But there is one place where man’s best friend always has hope: Dogtown. One of the largest no-kill animal facilities in the country, Dogtown is located on 33,000 acres of Southern Utah canyon country.

The sanctuary — run by the Best Friends Animal Society — hosts hundreds of dogs from all around the country, along with cats, horses, rabbits, goats and various other farm animals — about 1,500 animals at any one time. For the lost canine souls that find shelter at this home in one of 12 lodging facilities, a staff of over 60 oversees their every need — including medical attention, training and rehabilitation — with the eventual hope of finding these dogs a new, loving home.

Dogtown is often the last hope for dogs requiring specialized or urgent medical attention or for abused and neglected animals.

Michelle Besmehn - Best Friends Animal Society

Background information on the program:

Best Friends and the Fredonia Humane Society have launched a three-year partnership that will provide free spay/neuter services to residents of The Gap, an impoverished area within the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona.

Each month, Best Friends staff volunteer to help FHS president Tom Corrigan pick up family pets to take back to the sanctuary where medical staff will perform the spay/neuter operations.

For the past two and a half years, Tom Corrigan has taken it upon himself to help the people and animals living in The Gap. Once a month, he and volunteers make the four-hour roundtrip trip from the FHS – which is located about 20 miles south of Best Friends – to pick up family dogs and cats to be spayed and neutered. They also stop to pick up stray and abandoned animals in Coconino County. Tom returns the companion animals to their humans the following week; the strays stay at FHS until they find forever homes.

Tom never shows up to The Gap empty-handed. He brings food and supplies for residents and their pets, and offers medical assistance when he can. It’s an ongoing project and sometimes, he says, it really does feel like the work is never done. But now, he’s got a little help.

Finding Hemi, Tikki and Polly:

One day in July – I went on The Gap trip with Tom, Sherry, Jeff, Dr. Patti and a small crew from National Geographic Television in tow.

Dr. Patti helping out another resident of Dogtown.

After dropping off an entire van load of dog food for the residents on the reservation, we went to a nearby dumping ground that has several large dumpsters as well as dumped appliances and tires. It unfortunately has also become a dumping ground for unwanted animals. We leave lots of food and water there on each visit for the animals who might be around that area. On this trip, it was a very hot summer day and there was a large pile of old tires to look through. We picked through the tires carefully as it has been known to be a good hiding place for small dogs. Within moments we found a small black puppy (later named Hemi) who came out screaming. She was checked over by Dr. Patti who was with us and placed in the air conditioned van in a crate. Moments later and a thorough search of the debris and we found another puppy (later named Tikki) quietly hiding under an abandoned couch. Dr. Patti was worried that Tikki might be dehydrated because he was awfully quiet but after a short time in the van with access to food and water, he began perking up. Tom often finds dogs there that he takes back to the Fredonia Humane Society to find a better life for. In this case, we had room at our puppy building back at Best Friends and these little ones needed some extra care, so we were able to take them back to the sanctuary.

We next looked through all of the dumpsters and underneath them. It was hot and dirty work but no one wanted to miss a puppy that might be hiding. In that heat, they wouldn’t have long to live. We found a cat in surprisingly good shape and were able to catch her as well.

After leaving the many bags of food and gallons of water that we had brought, we expanded our search a little. Further away from the dumping area, we found a dog who had been recently shot in the head. It made me sad to see this poor dog who had been truly cast out like garbage and I hope that our work out there, helping to provide spaying and neutering services, will result in less unwanted animals – so that no one feels they have to shoot the dogs that they don’t want anymore.

Someone saw our Best Friends logo on the van and pulled in to tell us that they had recently rescued a small puppy with something wrong with her eye. She needed medical help. So we focused on the still living dog who needed our help and drove the short distance to their house and found little Polly. There wasn’t actually anything wrong with her eye – one was brown and one was blue which made her look a little different – but when Dr. Patti examined her, she did have a bite wound on her tiny little head and her skull might be fractured. We were able to take her too and she joined Tikki and Hemi for a trip back to life at Best Friends.

Come back often to hear more stories from the staff at Dogtown in the upcoming weeks. You can also learn more about the organization or how to help - click here.

Set your watches, Tivos, and DVRs, the first episodes of DogTown will be airing soon on the National Geographic Channel

Chris Gidez - Producer

The 47,000-mile American interstate system is only 50 years old, but within the context of world history, every modern road’s roots date back to the Romans. The only differences between past and present-day roadways are in their material, design and technology. But, no matter how advanced the engineering gets, there remains the fact that roads don’t build themselves. Men and women must still perform the difficult and dangerous physical labor that goes into building our essential interstate infrastructure.

To document some of the amazing engineering and brave work behind the scenes of America’s interstates, I set out with host Kevin Moore and our camera crew to visit five major construction sites in three states. Each project represents incredible solutions to the most common and sometimes unforeseen problems we see out on the highways – chief amongst them are the punishment and deterioration caused by extreme weather and heavy loads. And what struck me at each construction site we visited, were the ingenious techniques and logistical solutions employed to build new – and rebuild old – interstate highways.

To keep our focus on one major artery, we visited construction projects along the Interstate 35 / “NAFTA Corridor” – the main North American trade route through the US between the Mexican border in Texas and Canadian border in Minnesota. For good measure, we also took a look at projects around the hub of East/West transportation, Chicago, Illinois. At their foundation, each of the five projects was underway to address increased volumes of traffic.

In Laredo, Texas – near the busiest Mexican border crossing in the U.S. – contractors were busy repaving and widening Interstate 35, in order to handle the most destructive type of traffic – big rig trucks – which pulse along the road 24 hours a day. I was impressed with the stamina of workers paving 300F-degree hot asphalt in the 100F-degree Texas summer. One member of the paving crew told me “you get used to” the constant heat and fumes of the asphalt.

Due north, in the Austin metro area, a brand new highway is being built to bypass heavy congestion through the state’s capital. The new road is called SH-130, and here the contractor is using concrete pavement, instead of hot asphalt. Even so, this work is still pretty grueling. Embedded in the pavement is a structural matrix of steel re-bar – which must first be laid down by a small crew of men who perform their jobs like an elite troop of soldiers. First they place the steel rods down on a grid of supports, which result in a perfectly geometric arrangement. Then they quickly and efficiently tie the bar crossings with wire. I was blown away by how choreographed these workers were. I became especially impressed once I was thrust with my crew into the controlled chaos of the concrete paving process.

We witnessed a cavalcade of construction equipment working in unison when we filmed on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago. One of the work sites is a new lane being wedged between active highway traffic and the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line trains. Adding to the risk of being run over was a constant stream of giant dump trucks filled with wet concrete. Every minute or so, a new one pulls up ahead of the paving machines to release a flood of wet concrete from its payload. When filming this process, it is very easy find oneself in the way of one mechanism or another. Which explains why we were being yelled and honked at throughout the shoot. Not that we could hear anything through the deafening din of traffic, trains and heavy machinery.

It was a little more laid back, but still dangerous, 30 miles away in the Chicago suburbs near in Lemont, Illinois. We were here to film the high wire act of a new bridge being erected across the Des Plaines River Valley, where an extension of Interstate 355 was being built. It doesn’t matter how high the ironworkers do their jobs – I’m always impressed by how easily they seem to negotiate the sliver of a walkway at 100 feet off the ground. What’s even more impressive is how the workers guide the gigantic, 132-ton concrete beams being hoisted onto small landings atop supporting piers. The two crane operators and 4 ironworkers seem to know exactly what each other are thinking, although they do use radios to communicate. While the bridge building process is incredibly technical, such a gravity-defying feat leaves me so enthralled, I could sit for hours just watching the cranes raise one beam after another. That is, if I weren’t so concerned about capturing every aspect of the operation on camera.

The challenge of being everywhere at once was heightened when I arrived with my host and camera crew at the massive “Unweave the Weave” construction site, outside of St. Paul, Minnesota. This unusually named project is designed to untangle the dangerous interchange at the intersection of I-35E and I-694 – where an outdated traffic pattern design has caused huge headaches as the volume of traffic has risen. I’ve never seen so many stages of work being performed so simultaneously. At one end of the mile and a half long project, old road is being demolished. Not far away, a new flyover ramp is being erected with steel beams. And then in another area, a concrete barrier median is being poured using a special machine with a sliding form. All the while, traffic pulses through the entire construction zone with only one detour. While the workers continued to impress me, I also gained an appreciation for the level of organization orchestrated by the engineers in charge. Without their careful planning and execution, it would have been impossible to demolish and rebuild an entirely new interchange while accommodating the everyday volume of traffic.

Filming this documentary has given me a new perspective on everyday road-travel. Next time I’m stuck in traffic due to construction, I’ll try to avoid becoming frustrated. With my newfound respect, I’ll try to be thankful for all the hard work that goes into these mega-structures. But, then again, like most impatient motorists who depend on interstate highways for timesaving speed, I have a feeling my level of tolerance might vary depending on how late I’m running.

Man-Made:Super Roads airs this Thursday at 7p et/pt, followed by Incredible Islands: Dubai at 8p et/pt and Impossible Hotel at 9p et/pt.

Greg Chapman - Research
First of all let me say thank you to all those people that took the time to take the quiz, it is fascinating to see what type of readers we have here. And if this was your first time on the NGCBlog, then welcome!

"Naturally I had to be a T-Rex. My potato-like body and fondness for rare steak was a no-brainer." -Earl

7 are a Parasaurolophus

6 of you are either a Velociraptor, an Allosaurus or a Dilophosaurus

Four readers are a Edmontasaurus

Tied with three each are the Triceratops and Stegosaurus

One lonely Ornithosaurus

And finally one Ballerina and Brian the Dog from Family Guy

Also I wanted to point out one particular comment:

George says: dilopho...what? Cool, an on-line dino dating service. Got to go groom my crests.

George if this has helped you find your Dino-soul mate, then we have done our jobs...

If you hadn't had the chance to take the quiz yet, you can do so by clicking here.

Enjoy the show tonight.

Howard Hughes testing out his creation, the Hughes XF-11 spy plane. This picture was taken shortly before his almost fatal test flight in Beverly Hills, CA

Nat Geo chronicles the intelligent, creative, and at times eccentric Howard Hughes in the documentary Undercover History: Howard Hughes Revealed.

Preview a clip from the show before it premieres on Tuesday, December 11 at 9p by clicking here.

Now that you’ve discovered which dinosaur you are, we need your help.

Premiering this Sunday, Dino Death Trap digs up brand new species of dinosaurs from a lost age of the early Jurassic. In anticipation of the show, we’ve set up DinoCentralPark.com, where you can help us by introducing these dinos to unsuspecting New Yorkers and have a little fun doing it.

Are you up to the challenge? Roar away!

Also please have the sound on your speakers turned up!

Elena Cruz - Producer

What was this ferocious fish with a ravenous appetite?

FISHZILLA:

The Invasive Snakehead! Just when you think it’s safe…snakehead frenzy grabs you by the gills! Media reports first dubbed this incredible invasive species, ‘Frankenfish.’ I came to know this tenacious predator as Fishzilla.

I remembered hearing about this strange, scary story from East Coast friends. But it wasn’t until I actually talked to people on the snakehead frontlines that I realized this was really big news. But what was this ferocious fish with a ravenous appetite that destroys food chains – breeding, feeding and spreading non-stop? News reports described a creature from a nightmare. ‘It breathes air…has teeth like a shark… a taste for blood… and can even ‘walk’ on land.’

My epic hunt for the phenomenal Fishzilla took me to remote corners of the globe. A village reservoir in Thailand. A smugglers’ supermarket in LA. An ‘electrofishing’ expedition near the Pentagon. And a small-town Maryland pond where the snakehead first made headlines. The truth turned out to be even more amazing than I imagined.

U.S. SNAKEHEAD-SIGHTING GROUND ZERO, Maryland, USA:

Baltimore Sun reporter Candy Thomson first broke the local ‘Frankenfish’ story. Candy had a blast reminiscing about her snakehead days. She described the frantic Fishzilla fever that swept America...including her own husband. Totally deadpan, she told me how they’d watched the campy horror movie Snakehead Terror….“And so the movie ends, and of course the snakeheads are the size of Moby Dick and you know they’re chewing up whole boats and crawling on land. My husband looks at me and says, ‘if I had known that’s how dangerous it was, I would never had let you cover this.’ ” She laughed, and said covering the story was one of the most surreal experiences she’s ever had.

Catching a snakehead is very collegiate. It’s a whole lot more involved.

In Crofton, MD, Fishzilla-sighting epi-center, I met up with the fisherman who caught the first snakehead here, angler-turned-celebrity Joe Gillespie. He claims people today still approach him and ask if he’s “that guy who caught the snakehead.” Forget fifteen minutes of fishing fame, Joe became a true Fishzilla legacy!

I also attempted to reel in some live snakehead myself…along with ambitious snakehead ‘star,’ Derek Radoski. He wants to be America’s #1 Snakehead Angler. He swears Fishzilla will become the next big sport-fish. In anticipation, Derek’s designing special snakehead lures, and offers tips on how to catch these wily invaders on his website. According to Derek, “Catching a bass is like being in elementary school. Catching a snakehead is very collegiate. It’s a whole lot more involved.” My personal experience proved him right!

At the end of my Maryland trip, I met Jerry Trice, the quirky, sarcastic chef at Yin Yankee Café. Jerry encourages people to “eat the snakehead. Don’t ban it. Eat it. Barbecue it. I give this fish mad props.” But Jerry also told me a jaw-dropping story of how his tank of snakeheads actually tried to escape…by walking across his back patio.

NATIVE SNAKEHEAD HOME TURF Thailand:

Thousands of miles away from home…I’m waist deep in Snakehead Country, Thailand. I’d come to track down Fishzilla in its native lair… guided by a world-renowned snakehead hunter, the unforgettable Jean-Francois Helias.

The snakehead…he’s a king. He’s a warrior. He’s a samurai.

When it comes to snakeheads, Jean-Francois is the most passionate person I think I’ll ever meet. Or perhaps I was deceived by his fiery French accent? Greeting him at his Bangkok apartment, I was overwhelmed by his collection of photos: hero-shots of him posing with massive snakeheads, IGFA world record plaques, snakehead toys, and piles and piles of fishing magazines (more than a few with Jean Francois on the cover). He’s a staunch advocate of this remarkable species. “The snakehead…he’s a king. He’s a warrior. He’s a samurai. He’s whatever you want him to be. This is what makes him so great.”

And that was just the beginning. Imagine five days on a snakehead-hunting houseboat! Jean Francois and I camped out on the beautiful, remote Srinikarin Reservoir. Every morning we’d diligently wake up at 5:00AM, pack up the boat, and set out on a snakehead-fishing and tracking expedition. I got to witness a record-breaking Cobra snakehead catch…and meet local anglers who told me gruesome stories – and showed me scars – of their bloody snakehead attacks.

US SNAKEHEAD SCOURGE CONTINUES:

But no matter where this astounding story took me, it was always important to remember: this invasive species is no joke. The struggle to stop the dangerous U.S. snakehead spread is ongoing. I took my most probing questions to Florida icthyologist Walt Courtenay, aka ‘Doctor Snakehead.’ He and scientists like Maryland Fisheries’ biologist Steve Early are trying to assess – and stop - the threat to U.S waters. They also showed me the fish’s unusual anatomy, how these creatures spawn in record numbers, grow super fast and yes…can even move across land.

Overall, I was able to get various perspectives on this alien fish: breaking news story, exciting sport fish, man’s best friend, and deadly threat. Were they all really talking about the same thing? Turns out, yes.

One thing’s certain: you have to see these phenomenal fish to believe them…on Fishzilla!