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Scientists
Sacred Predator
The Lost World
Angel, Devil, and Rainbow
Window into the Past
Thunderous Passage
Venezuelan biologists Margarita Lampo and Fabián A. Michelangeli
gaze out the windows of their helicopter at the magnificent
view of Angel Falls below.
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The black jaguar was the most sacred animal in the ancient Mayan
culture. Today the presence of a jaguar signals the health of
a Central American tropical forest ecosystem.
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The expedition's helicopter approaches Mount Roraima. Trisected
by the borders of three nations (Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil),
the mountain's isolated table-top summit is a treasure trove
of unique, unique species that are evolving in isolation.
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Angel Falls (the world's highest waterfall) explodes from the
face of Auyán-tepui to fall nearly a full kilometer into
seething Devil's Canyon in the valley below.
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Tourists visiting Tikal today can only imagine what the once-great
Mayan city looked like over 1,000 years ago. Could the ancient
stones of Tikal have something to tell us about our own civilization?
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En route to the Lost Worlds, expedition members thread their
way past the slippery backside of plummeting Hacha Falls in
the Venezuelan highlands.
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All
images except Thunderous Passage courtesy of Life
in the Balance Productions Inc.
Thurderous Passage courtesy of Fabián A. Michelangeli.
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