A new study has found that 60% of the Amazon remains hidden. It suggests the region has unknown tribes and species we are yet ...

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 ...

From legendary predators to playful river mammals and dazzling birds, these animals have become symbols of the Amazon’s wild ...

Leafcutter ant carrying a leaf to its nest.© Ken Griffiths/Shutterstock.com Researchers report that a large portion of Amazon insect species already live close to their upper heat limits. As global ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls ...

The Ucayali River snakes across the rainforest in this image captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from the International ...

A canopy walkway at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (ACTS) Field Station in the Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve, located 40 miles outside of Iquitos, Peru. Look up in the woods and you ...

According to research published in the journal Ambio, plastic fragments have been found in wildlife and water across all nine Amazonian countries. As Mongabay observed, microplastics are appearing ...