Deep in the dense green heart of the Peruvian Amazon, far from any road, ...

There’s a reason they warned you never to travel alone in the Amazon. As you go deeper into the rainforest, you start to feel like you’re being watched. Wait. Was that a roar? Soon you realize that ...

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 ...

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 isn't just home to jaguars and anacondas. The canopy and rivers also house creatures that have mastered an unusual survival strategy: living entirely on blood. They may not necessarily ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. They draw it ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Jaguar densities in Brazil's Mamirauá Reserve rank among the highest ever recorded for the species – but that doesn't mean ...

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