The BEST episodes of Explorer season 2007
Every episode of Explorer season 2007, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Explorer season 2007!
Now in its third decade, National Geographic Explorer travels around the world exploring topical news stories. Hosted by Lisa Ling, Explorer visits locations with unique events and fascinating stories.
#1 - Ultimate Shark
Season 2007 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2007
The world's first MRI scan of a great white shark reveals the extreme engineering and hunting abilities of one of nature's most perfect predators.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Science of Babies
Season 2007 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/19/2007
Did you know babies can learn languages and even grasp math? Explore the remarkable plasticity of a baby's brain and see how early experiences influence human development.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Inside North Korea
Season 2007 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/27/2007
Cross into North Korea, one of the world's most secretive nations, for a rare glimpse of the country and its leader, Marshal Kim Jong II.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Doomsday Volcano
Season 2007 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/2007
Volcanologists make a stunning discovery when they dive into one of the largest, yet most mysterious, natural calamities in human history: the eruption of Santorini
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Science of Dogs
Season 2007 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/15/2007
With 400 breeds and counting, the dog is more varied in size and behavior than any other species. Follow man's evolutionary manipulation of dogs' appearance and talents, and see how nature and man have partnered to create new and specialized breeds
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Heroin Crisis
Season 2007 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/23/2007
Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs on earth. Stronger, purer and easier to get than ever before, heroin is attracting a whole new breed of addict. Dangerously pure, the newest forms of heroin can be snorted or smoked, rather than injected, attracting millions of new mainstream users. Explorer investigates how the war in Afghanistan has inadvertently unleashed a deluge of heroin, enticing users from Kabul to Europe to America's heartland.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Last Christians of Bethlehem
Season 2007 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/9/2007
Christian residents are caught in the crosshairs of a growing Islamic fundamentalism and the entrenched Israeli fortress that surrounds the birthplace of Jesus
#8 - China's Secret Mummies
Season 2007 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/2/2007
Light is shed on ancient human migrations as 3000-year-old mummies with European features are unearthed in a remote Chinese desert.
#9 - Ultimate Viper
Season 2007 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/21/2007
Vipers have been evolving their way to the top of the reptile heap for millions of years. Their venom is lethal and they can strike with precision in complete darkness. Now, some vipers may be evolving into even deadlier forms. Did humans help?
#10 - Inside the Body Trade
Season 2007 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/11/2007
Follow the global black market in body parts, from transplant surgeries in America to eager "donors" in India to China where executed prisoners' bodies are coveted.
#11 - Mammoth Mystery
Season 2007 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/7/2007
What caused the sudden mass extinction of mammoths 13,000 years ago? Clues point to the biggest cosmic impact humans have ever witnessed.
#12 - Ultimate Crocodile
Season 2007 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/12/2007
Ultimate Crocodile: Saltwater crocodiles are one of the most successful predators the world has ever seen. They out-lasted the dinosaurs with a 200 million year-old biological design, perfectly engineered for the modern world. The "saltie" has the most powerful jaws since T-rex, a complex heart and brain, and unexpected intelligence.
#13 - Jellyfish Invasion
Season 2007 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/8/2007
It has no bones, blood or brains, but the jellyfish has survived in our oceans for more than 500 million years. Now, its numbers are exploding. Why?
#14 - FBI Takedown
Season 2007 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/13/2007
NGC takes you inside the perilous world of one of America's most elite law enforcement agencies, offering a rare glimpse of their investigative strategies and techniques in action. Find out how the G-men always get their man.
#15 - Struck by Lightning
Season 2007 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/2007
What really happens when 30 million volts of electricity charges through your body and you survive being struck by lightning? Now, meet survivors who live to tell their tale of being hit by a force that is faster than a speeding bullet and five times hotter than the sun as Explorer unravels the science behind one of nature's most mysterious phenomena. Using revolutionary brain imaging technology and 3-D CGI, NGC travels inside the human body along the path of a lightning bolt.
#16 - Aryan Brotherhood
Season 2007 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/2007
The Aryan Brotherhood is a secretive criminal gang that began inside California's maximum-security penitentiaries and expanded rapidly into dozens of state and federal prisons across the nation. Outwardly a white power group, its real interest is in controlling drug and extortion rackets. Now, Explorer unveils this underworld society and comes face-to-face with some of the gang's most infamous members, including a former Aryan Brotherhood leader who, by his own count, has killed 22 men
#17 - Iraq's Guns for Hire
Season 2007 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2007
For up to $600 a day, private security contractors in Iraq's war zone risk their lives to protect VIPs and transport critical supplies. See how these mercenaries survive in the "kill zone."