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 ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

In a groundbreaking move, stingless bees in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been granted legal rights, becoming the world's first insects with such protections. This initiative, driven by local ...

A unique salamander-like animal with a twisted jaw has made experts rethink what happened after the Carboniferous Rainforest ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this forest consists of insects. These small creatures pollinate plants, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people envision the Amazon AMZN rainforests as a tropical paradise with indigenous peoples, exotic animals, and birds. All true. However, deforestation and climate change threaten that ecosystem, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could ...