Welcome to the end of the year and the "Best of" and "Top X" galleries and stories. There will be more to come.
Discovery News:
Top 10 Stories of 2010 Chosen by YOU!: Slide Show Relive 2010 through our readers' favorite stories, from the weirdest to the coolest.
National Geographic:
Top Ten Discoveries of 2010 A time-bending earthquake, a fish with "hands," and "Yoda bat" are among National Geographic News's most visited coverage of 2010 discoveries.
National Geographic:
Best Cosmic Mindblowers of 2010 Perhaps Stephen Hawking said it best: "Our image of the universe today is full of strange-sounding ideas and remarkable truths." Wrap your brain around National Geographic News editors' picks of some of the odder astrophysics concepts introduced in 2010.
National Geographic:
Most Watched Videos of 2010 You watched, we noticed. See Nat Geo News's best videos of 2010, as measured by viewer interest-a fire tornado, a vampire squid, and more.
National Geographic:
Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010 A fish with "hands," a T. Rex leech, and a self-cloning lizard are among our picks for the weirdest new species in 2010.
National Geographic:
Best of Archaeology 2010: Nat Geo News's Ten Most Viewed From Titanic to Noah's Ark-Nat Geo News's most viewed stories told of vanishing treasures, rediscovered relics, and more.
National Geographic:
Nat Geo Photo Contest Winners From charging buffalo to an erupting volcano-see the winning pictures of the 2010 National Geographic Photo Contest.
National Geographic:
PHOTOS: 2010 a Watershed Year for Floods, Droughts? 2010 was a year of extreme water events, from dramatic hydrological changes in China and Pakistan to fracking pollution stateside and sinkholes in Guatemala.
National Geographic:
Photos: 14 Rarest, Oddest Mammals From echidnas to hairy-nosed wombats, see the rarest and weirdest mammals on Earth, as ranked by the Zoological Society of London.
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