New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

The world’s largest snake has recently been discovered in the Amazon rainforest. This new species of northern green anaconda ...

The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat” — marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South ...

DNA analysis indicates these bats may be members of a new, undescribed ... the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest ...