This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...

Perching in a small motor boat on a fast-flowing river, Chris steadied his long lens on this battle. The jaguar had come across the yacaré caiman by chance – accidentally stepping on the reptile after ...

Kneeling in the boat, he was perfectly placed when the cat delivered the skull-crushing bite to the unsuspecting yacare caiman. The South American Pantanal wetland supports the highest density of ...