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 ...

In one of the first scenes where we meet the beaver character King George in Pixar’s “Hoppers,” the creature gracefully flops ...

TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Zoo is showing their thanks for the toys they received from their Amazon Wishlist. In a video they ...

Known as Tanyka amnicola, this lake-dweller with twisted jaws and teeth pointed outward lived in Gondwana 275 million years ...

Scientists have discovered that a widely recognized Amazonian antbird is not one, but five distinct species—including two ...

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of ...

With its uniquely twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, the new species was a relic of an earlier and more experimental time in the evolution of life on Earth. Fossils discovered in Brazil show that ...

The remains of a "weird" creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant-eater Tanyka was a “living fossil” when it stalked ...