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 ...

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. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

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 ...

Dung beetles remove feces from wild animals in forests and thus inhibit the spread of parasites. They work the dung into the ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Working together, the Reconecta Project and the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous people build bridges that connect the forest canopy over the BR-174 road ...

This article is brought to you by Audubon Nature Institute. Thanks to characters in animated movies like “Zootopia” and the “Ice Age” franchise, most people think of sloths as slow, docile animals ...