explorer

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

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

And it defends America, because we are of you: “Our story began with an Italian explorer whose adventure into the great unknown” discovered the new world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

It was built by the Arctic explorer Rear Admiral Sir John Ross, whose nephew James Clark Ross would later discover the magnetic North Pole.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Anyone lucky enough to meet him will find a very special human being—a mountain climber who finds poetry on the peak, an explorer who sings the glories of the stars.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr