Mario Torres, a brilliant young student, left Venezuela at 18 years old in search of a better life. That was eight years ago.

By Fernanda WenzelMarco Mantovani Smuggled in cars, aboard airplanes, or on sailboats crossing the Atlantic Ocean, tiny golden-furred monkeys are being wrenched from their Brazilian forest homes and ...

It’s perfectly natural for people to come and go from your life. Not all friendships are meant to last forever, and it can be ...

Wildlife experts in Georgia are urging locals to keep on the lookout for any four-foot-long lizards wandering around the ...

To Brazilians, the ubiquitous caramel-colored mutts are a national icon. But a Mexican state has adopted them as its own ...

A kākāpō named Dusky is one of the parrots being monitored during this year's breeding season in New Zealand. The species has ...

Victims of overhunting and habitat loss, the last wild Caucasian bison was killed in 1927. Elshad Askerov, head of World ...

The Guatemalan beaded lizard is one of the rarest lizard species in the world and has a special hormone that is now synthesized to make GLP-1 medication.

I have returned to the United States grudgingly after having been gone six months. During that time, I spent a month in the Patagonia region, and then five months in ...

Far from Colombia's tourist hubs, the Mavecure Mountains rise from the Amazon jungle. Once off-limits during conflict, they ...