It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research in ...

The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, has long been thought of as a refuge from human-made pollution. But recent research is shattering that idea. Microplastics, tiny plastic ...

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 ...

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. The Brazilian Amazon ...

From the vast Amazon Rainforest and the wild Congo Rainforest to Australia’s ancient Daintree Rainforest, the misty Tongass ...

Credit: Joedi Porto/Paulo Wilker/Antonio Humberto/State Secretariat for Animal Protection/Cover Images A jaguar rescued from the middle of the Rio Negro after being shot in the head in October has ...

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 ...

From India to Brazil, China and Congo, discover the world’s most wildlife-rich countries, known for exceptional species ...

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 ...