An enormous vine, covered in mosses and bryophytes, descending from the rainforest canopy. Ribbed Pacaya Samiria National Reserve

Pacaya Samiria National Reserve

A rain storm pours down from a billowing thunderhead over a vast lake

A veteran Antarctic glaciologist's weathered features and white beard

A villager in the rainforest holds a the sun-bleached shell of a Apple Snail

Saltwater Crocodiles regulate body temperature by opening their jaws

An enormous vine, covered in mosses and bryophytes, descending from the rainforest canopy. Ribbed Pacaya Samiria National ReserveAn enormous vine, covered in mosses and bryophytes, descending from the rainforest canopy. Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, Reserva Nacional Pacaya Samiria, Loreto Region, Maynas Province, Amazon Basin, Peru.