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A forgotten adventure with a telepathic tribe

In the late 1960s, prolific explorer, photographer and writer Loren McIntyre went to Brazil in search of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rain forest called the Mayoruna. What he says happened there is extraordinary—but was it too good to be true?

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How scientists captured the first-ever picture of a black hole—and why it matters

More than 50 million light-years away, this gargantuan beast is devouring anything that strays too near—stars, planets, gas, dust, and even light. More than 200 scientists helped capture this unprecedented image using a telescope the size of a planet.

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A mysterious ancient human was found on the 'roof of the world'

The fossilized jaw, dated to 160,000 years ago, comes from the enigmatic human population known as the Denisovans—a sister group to the Neanderthals. It also shatters records for the earliest inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau.

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9 powerful ancient kingdoms you've probably never heard of

The Phrygians, whose most famous leader was the legendary King Midas, ruled over a swath of Turkey for centuries—yet many have never heard their name. Here, more monarchies that have gone unmentioned in most history books.

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This is the oldest known map of the Holy Land

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem. How long ago was it created? Here's how archaeologists are piecing together its very long history.

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I'm pretty reluctant to voice very much about the beaming experience because I didn't want my friends to think I'd gone around the bend. 'What is this? The guy's hallucinating?'

Loren McIntyre

National Geographic writer, photographer, explorer

From: A forgotten adventure with a telepathic tribe

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Whales don't spray water from their blowholes and other myths, debunked

You may have heard the story of the man who was swallowed by a whale; it's just one of many misconceptions about these marine mammals that can be disproved by science. Here, we set the record straight.

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This ancient Egyptian 'funeral home' was a one-stop shop for the afterlife

Its discovery in 2018 made headlines around the world: Archaeologists had unearthed an ancient "funeral home" deep beneath the sands of Saqqara, a sprawling necropolis (or city of the dead). In the years since, it has given scientists a much better understanding of how ancient Egypt handled the business of death.

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