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 ...

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

Researchers found microplastics in every frog tadpole sampled in the Amazon rainforest. Learn what this means for ...

Typical animals in the lowland rainforest of the Amazon: On the left, the palm-sized dung beetle Coprophanaeus lancifer, which appears to be sensitive to low temperatures. On the right, the Brazilian ...

You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls of birds in the canopy above might be exactly what allows you to relax. But ...

Twelve remarkable rainforest animals—from jaguars and sloths to orangutans, toucans, and poison dart frogs—thrive in the ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of land without putting their paws on the ground. The Brazilian Amazon ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...