The Amazon rainforest is under constant threat from encroachment and segmentation, but animals are finding a lifeline thanks ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

High above the forest floor, the Amazon’s newest thoroughfares are not branches or lianas but human-built walkways, and the ...

Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. (Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...

Project Mantis carries out research expeditions to the Amazon to record the often-overlooked fauna that emerge when night falls over the world’s largest rainforest. Its researchers focus on insects ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

Tests were done to see what may have happened to the dolphin. A second dolphin was found on Hilton Head Island beach.

New study addresses the effects of fires on biodiversity loss in the world’s largest forest during the last two decades. Researchers measured the impacts on the habitats of 14,000 species of plants ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Jaguar rescued after being shot in the head released back into the Amazon rainforest. A jaguar rescued from the middle of the ...