In a groundbreaking move, stingless bees in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been granted legal rights, becoming the world's ...

The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil and neighboring South American countries is one of the largest and most remote ecosystems on Earth. In recent years, travelers and explorers have ventured deep into the ...

Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities have traveled to Ecuador's northern oil region to witness the ...

Only Shirley Manson can wear waterproof pants and a helmet with a headlamp to descend into a cave and explore a cenote ...

Deep within the tropical rainforests of Central and South America lives one of the most powerful birds on Earth: the harpy ...

Study that involved condoms helped scientists discover that cicada mud towers protect against predators and regulate the air.

Even with only jaws, Tanyka amnicola adds a new character to an ancient ecosystem that scientists are still trying to sketch ...

Decades ago, the drug baron smuggled the beasts into South America for his private menagerie. They’ve been multiplying ever since. Now officials are taking extreme measures to counter the problem A ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

Camels are masters of adaptation. Here’s how these animals evolved to survive the sand and glare while preserving crucial ...