Pushing through the steaming jungle, a Venezuelan army major named Franz Antonio Rísquez Iribarren scrambled to the top of a high cliff in the Parima Mountains and proudly planted his flag at ...

With the occupation of Morotai and the strategic end of the New Guinea campaign, the U.S. presumably has two more major jungle campaigns before Japan is beaten : the Philippines and the cleanup in ...

The nearest hospital is three hours away and, to get there, Omayra must be carried in a hammock down slippery, steaming jungle hills, crisscrossing rivers along the way.

None of the iconic “terrible lizards” that we so often associate with steaming, dense jungles lived i. Rainforests did not yet exist when the Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops roamed the Earth. None of ...