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The trip to the crater is hard and hot: 150 km of corrugated red dirt road from Halls Creek, through a flat expanse of spinifex and low scrub. This Tanami Track, if you had a couple of days to spare, would lead you to Alice Springs, near the center of...
Robin Hemley, in his book Invented Eden, asks if someone did just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into...
Given the Amazon's size, it is unlikely that these monkeys will be the last of its secrets. Says co-discoverer Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International: "We've got some monkeys in cages that we know are new species. We just haven't described them yet."
It wasn't supposed to be like this. When backpackers first hit the road in the 1970s, they were seen as an antidote to sterile package tours, a return to travel as exploration and adventure. Cheap flights and cheaper costs on the ground meant any Westerner could play discoverer, a...
Digging for archaeological paydirt in what is now the Sahara Desert, scientists have unearthed the fossilized bones of the second-largest dinosaur ever to walk the earth. Dubbed Paralititan stromeri (the first name means "tidal giant"; the second refers to Ernst Stromer, a geologist who found dinosaur fossils in the...