explorer

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The species name Megachelicerax cousteaui honors French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Her background is particularly eclectic: an engineer by training, she is a seasoned explorer who has worked in extreme environments including Antarctica.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

A solo explorer can only fight his circumstances, not his co-pilot.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Australia-listed Perseus in December offered to buy Predictive Discovery in a deal valuing the explorer at more than US$1.3 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The proposal was for Roosevelt to go deep into an unexplored part of the Amazon jungle in Mato Grosso—Brazil’s wild frontier—to map an uncharted river with the renowned explorer Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple