Prize went to a team whose drone-delivered tree-top labs identified 700 different types of animals and plants, including 250 distinct species over a 24-hour period ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed to preserve the ...

The newspaper El Financiero reported that the property owner, allegedly nicknamed "El Tigre," leads a Sinaloa Cartel-aligned ...

Latin America’s animal populations have fallen drastically over the past 50 years. Will recapturing trafficked animals be ...

Over 1.3 million acres of some of the tallest and most valuable trees in the Amazon rainforest have been recognized as a protected area by the Brazilian state of Pará.

Dubbed caecilia truncata or the truncated caecilian, the 19-inch, pale-gray critter is a type of elusive, legless amphibian that lives underground in South American rainforests. Caecilians look ...

Noisily bending boughs, two avian heavyweights tumbled through the early morning treetops like a pair of late-night ...

XPRIZE, the world's leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity's grand challenges, announced the winners of its $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest comp ...

While many animals use vocalisations to communicate, some species have evolved extraordinarily loud calls, which can travel vast distances and cut through dense environments. These powerful sounds are ...

Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, binturong, small-toothed palm, masked palm, and ...

The Palm Beach Zoo started as a humble farm, but has evolved into learning and experiences, all while the zoo tries to save ...

Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of the world's diet originating from these lush, tropical areas. Here's a ...