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The biodiversity in these wet tropical forests is mind-blowing. It is home to the largest collection of living plant and animal species in the world. One in ten known species on this planet lives in the Amazon Rainforest. Amazonia is home to around...

During the Family Tree DNA Conference, Dr. Miguel Vilar, the Scientific Data Manager for the Explorer Programs was kind enough to give us an update on the Genographic project.  One of the things that he mentioned was that no overarching paper had...

Over the past two years, the unique challenges facing indigenous people in North America have finally gotten some media attention, much of it due to the successful fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the ongoing protests against the $3.7 billion...

Inuit man eating narwhal (NGS) The following interview is my 12th in a series with my esteemed colleague Dr. Michael Hutchins. Michael recently joined the American Bird Conservancy, as the organization’s National Bird Smart Wind Campaign Coordinator...

No blog about giants would be complete without mention of Amerigo Vespucci, the man for whom 1/3 of the world is named after. Which is quite extraordinary if you think about it. But why was most of the western hemisphere named after him? Is it because...