"Supposedly 'simple' or everyday motifs such as textiles or blankets are in fact ritualistic clothing that shamans put on in ...

Rock art found in the Amazon rainforest carries images of the area's earliest inhabitants living alongside giant Ice Age creatures, researchers say. The paintings are estimated to have been made ...

A teaspoon of soil from the Amazon contains as many as 1,800 microscopic life forms, of which 400 are fungi. Largely invisible and hidden underground, the "dark matter" of life on Earth has ...