The Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest, is home to some of the most extraordinary and diverse wildlife on the planet. From the colorful macaws and hummingbirds to the mighty ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

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While theme parks, water parks, national parks and beaches are top draws, why not consider adding in an aquarium visit?

In a warming world, the health of forests can change in surprising ways. A new analysis highlights how a weakening Atlantic ...

With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the sunflower star is a purple urchin-eating machine. But Bank said the sunflower ...

The new species was found in French Guiana, researchers said, on the northern edge of the Amazon Rainforest. Sibon nebulatus, or the black and white snail-eating snake, was collected from Mont Itoupé ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

The Amazonian manatee is a gentle giant gliding through the slow-moving rivers and flooded forests of the Amazon Basin. Unlike its ocean-dwelling cousins, this freshwater mammal is rarely seen, making ...

To gauge the magnitude of this problem, the team found that between 1980 and 2017, small-scale mining destroyed more than 367 square miles (950 square km)) of rainforest in this territory — an ...

Understanding how drought can affect the Amazon, an area twice the size of India that crosses into several South American nations, has implications far beyond the region. The rainforest stores a ...

These hardy inhabitants of the abyss have adapted to survive in one of the most extreme environments on earth, where pressures can reach more than 1,000 times that at sea level. Understanding these ...