Exploration and Explorers

The fish has dark splotches resembling another Amazon denizen, the jaguar.

The fish has dark splotches resembling another Amazon denizen, the jaguar.

The delicate drawing of the dramatic peak is from the mid-1800s.

Tradition meets Facebook on epic transcontinental trek.

Many of the strange creatures have never been seen in the region before.

Today's Earth news headlines and links.

Three panels from massive painting to be installed on mountain top.

Spanish-led international team will study change in planet's oceans.

Leggy specimen in a jar revealed to be new kind of squid.

NASA's human spaceflight program might take some giant leaps forward if the agency embraces genetics tools and techniques more fully, according to genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter.