It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research in ...

The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, has long been thought of as a refuge from human-made pollution. But recent research is shattering that idea. Microplastics, tiny plastic ...

Credit: Joedi Porto/Paulo Wilker/Antonio Humberto/State Secretariat for Animal Protection/Cover Images A jaguar rescued from ...

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 ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of land without putting their paws on the ground. The Brazilian Amazon ...

A hoarse sound abruptly wakes visitors staying at a floating house that serves as a base for environmentalists on the Jaraua river in the Amazon rainforest. During flood season, the Mamiraua ...

The world's largest rain forest houses an abundance of wildlife. March 11, 2009 — -- It's home to the world's most vast variety of living creatures with the most birds, freshwater fish and ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Typical animals in the lowland rainforest of the Amazon: On the left, the palm-sized dung beetle Coprophanaeus lancifer, which appears to be sensitive to low temperatures. On the right, the Brazilian ...