This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Heading east across Louisiana’s swamp-like bayous, the scenery becomes almost dreamlike: air thickens, light softens and the horizon ...

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The misty mountains of the Western Ghats seem to unravel new secrets the more you explore it. Researchers have discovered two new frog genera, possibly restricted to rare and threatened freshwater ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Swamp things, waterfowl, flytraps, a few frogs and even royalty were lurking in the West ...