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Bill Hatcher

Bill Hatcher is an Emmy award-winning photographer and videographer. His work first appeared in National Geographic magazine 30 years ago, and he is the author of The National Geographic Field Guide to Action/Adventure Photography . His photographs have appeared in other publications as well, including Outside magazine, Newsweek, and Smithsonian magazine.

A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth provides warmth as the expedition’s scientists enjoy lunch 80 feet below the opening of Natural Trap Cave.

A Trove of Ice Age Fossils Buried in a Wyoming Cave Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Prehistoric Animals

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene

A sun-bleached skull is evidence of the first recorded jaguar predation on a black bear, linked to the big cat roaming this terrain.

The Return of the Great American Jaguar

The story of tracking a legendary feline named El Jefe through the Arizona mountains