Dramatic still images of a jaguar ambushing an unwary caiman in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands went viral on the web this month. National Geographic has exclusive video of the attack that reveals what ...

(Read "Path of the Jaguars" in National Geographic magazine.) The largest of South America's cats, jaguars are good swimmers and regularly prey on fish, turtles, and caimans. They also eat larger ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Thirty years ago the yacare caiman appeared to be heading for oblivion, ruthlessly hunted to supply a lucrative ...

Caiman, on the other hand, hoist their torsos into the air when they move, an advanced form of locomotion that many scientists believed did not evolve until millions of years later, when egg ...

In video previously shot by National Geographic showing a jaguar killing a caiman, Explorer Luke Dollar notes they're the most aquatic of all big cats. In the Pantanal, jaguars seem to take little ...

In August, National Geographic caught incredible footage of a large male jaguar stalking and lunging onto the back of a caiman — a cousin of the crocodile native to South America — as it was ...

These crocodilians are smaller than their black caiman relations ... a freshwater bony fish. National Geographic/Justin Mandel Clarice shows Gordon Ramsay how to grate cassava.

National Geographic covered a wide range of stories ... Exclusive Video: Jaguar Kills Caiman A jaguar lunges for a caiman in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands. Photograph by Paul Donahue In dramatic ...

Photograph by Kirsten Luce, National Geographic While animals are passed among the crowd, camera shutters click, and selfie sticks jut out at all angles. A woman holds a juvenile caiman ...