New York Post
Teddy Roosevelt's great-grandson relives TR's trip through the Amazon They were on a tiny raft, bobbing down the aptly named River of Doubt in the tangled heart of the Amazon, when he suddenly heard his Cinta Larga guide shout,...
Family dives into Amazon River to escape pirates An American couple from California made a daring escape from pirates who attacked their boat on the Amazon River by jumping overboard and swimming to shore, towing their two young...
Leader of pirate gang suspected of murdering kayaker is killed by rival bandits The Amazonian pirate who robbed and murdered a British kayaker was himself killed by a rival who wanted to get his hands on the stolen loot, police said. Evanilson Gomes...
British kayaker killed by pirates foretold her own demise The British kayaker who was murdered 42 days into a daring trek on the Amazon River was constantly pushing her boundaries. A former primary-school principal in London, Emma Kelty ditched...
Remote Amazon tribe allegedly massacred by gold miners Members of an uncontacted tribe said to include women and children have allegedly been massacred by gold miners in a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon. Federal prosecutors in Brazil...
'The Man of the Hole' lives a life that's the stuff of nightmares Picture all your friends and family brutally murdered or coldly displaced by illegal loggers, daring gold miners, brutal drug traffickers, cattle ranchers or land speculators — threats from all sides...
This fish may bite your balls off Juan Gallo couldn’t believe his eyes when he pulled out the pacu --a fish native to the Amazon region -- last weekend from Lucchesi Park pond in Petaluma, Calif., about...
Viewers livid after Anaconda Man fails to get eaten alive Discovery Channel’s “Eaten Alive” special turned out to be a bit of a bait and switch. Researcher and conservationist Paul Rosolie was attempting to get ingested by a giant green...
‘River Monsters’ uncovers tale of deadly Amazon fish attack It wasn’t Professor Plum in the conservatory with the candlestick. So who — or, more accurately, what — killed as many as 300 people in Brazil’s Amazon River in 1981?...