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To celebrate Black History Month, The Explorers Club is hosting a panel of speakers to share amazing stories of little-known exploits in Black history, adventure, exploration, escape, resilience, and survival. The panel streams live on Monday, February 28th at 7:00pm ET on explorers.org, their YouTube Channel, Facebook Live.

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Meet Bolortsetseg (Bolor) Minjin, a Mongolian paleontologist and Explorers Club Fellow who played a pivotal role in stopping the sale of a fossil skeleton of the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus bataar, illegally collected from Mongolia. Bolor has also helped coordinate the return of over 30 other stolen dinosaurs to Mongolia.

This area is one of the last uncharted places left on the map.

Catch a glimpse of the goings-on at the base from this picturesque view.

Learn how to master the flame with one of these fires.

I have come to Oaxaca to take part in the Día de los Muertos celebration. This region is clearly in the grip of the pandemic, preparations are well underway to welcome the spirits of the dead on the 31st of October and the 1st and 2nd of November.

Arbore, Dassenetch, Karo, Konso... These are some of the most fascinating tribes from the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

In the time of quarantine, exploration legends Kathy Sullivan, Bertrand Piccard, and Børge Ousland know a thing or two about facing the challenges of isolation.

The mists of The Great Smoky Mountains seem to shroud the very secrets of the region's historical tragedies and biological triumphs.

A trek through China's Tiger Leaping Gorge is a journey into the country's most ethnically diverse region, where beauty and fear hang intoxicatingly in the air.

This hidden room within the mountain was designed for the future.

Get your popcorn ready, it's a Discovery stream-a-thon!

A landslide a century ago created this bizarre scenery.

Way back in 1708, when the War of Spanish Succession was waging across Europe and Latin America to decide who should be the next King of Spain, three Spanish galleons set sail from Panama. They were loaded to the brim with gold, silver, emeralds, and other jewels that had been extracted from the mines of Bolivia – and were vital in financing Spain’s costly war against its enemies.