In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

A new drone study reveals over 41,000 giant South American river turtles nesting on the banks of the Guaporé River between Brazil and Bolivia.

A newly discovered 275-million-year-old species found near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil had a jaw unlike anything seen before — and it’s forcing scientists to rethink when ...

It lived about 275 million years ago during the Early Permian Period and belonged to a group called stem tetrapods, early relatives of modern four-limbed animals that eventually gave rise to the ...

For riverside communities along the Amazon, fish is not a menu choice—it is a lifeline. Millions of people in the Brazilian ...