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 ...

But scientists don't yet know its full effects on other forest animals in the Amazon, where more than 10,000 species of plants and animals are at a high risk of extinction due to destruction of ...

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region. That’s ...

New plants and animals are discovered all the time A new species of plant or animal was discovered in the Amazon rainforest every three days between 1999 and 2009, according to a World Wildlife ...

Man says he survived month lost in Amazon rainforest by eating insects, drinking urine and fighting off animal attacks ...

In the world’s largest rainforest, wildlife crawls, hops, flies and prowls through every nook and cranny. Most animals are adept at hiding from humans, though, so finding them can be tough. To ...

An unprecedented study is analyzing biodiversity by listening to nearly 16,000 minutes of recordings made in Carajás National Forest, a protected region in the Brazilian Amazon. Some 230 bird ...

April 12 - Many people who live in the Brazilian Amazon dread the arrival of the dry season, roughly June to December. It's when rainclouds give way to smoke from forest fires. The burning is so ...