Rebecca McPhee

The best outdoor adventure links of the past seven days, from flash floods in the Grand Canyon to bike-packing across Norway to climbing in Birkenstocks.

Here's a sneak peek of some of the most promising contenders in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Lying at the bottom of the cold North Atlantic, the Titanic has changed dramatically in the 112 years since it sank. New photos of the wreck show just how much the old ship has decayed in recent years.

An asteroid the size of a medicine ball broke up in a blaze of glory as it hit the atmosphere Wednesday over the Philippines.

A Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan in 2017. Photo: Andrew McConnell

Artists impression of a living Pegasus volans feeding on bioluminescent plankton. Image: Margaux Boetsch

Scientists have solved a marine murder mystery in which a pregnant porbeagle shark was the missing victim and the open ocean was the crime scene.

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week.

Joel Lapointe was scouring Quebec for camping spots when he saw something unusual. There appeared to be a 15km wide circle surrounding Marsal Lake.

Archaeologists have long known that humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where this took place has proven difficult to pinpoint. A new study may have solved the mystery.