By Karla Mendes A traditional food source for Amazonian communities, freshwater turtles have been included in Brazil’s list ...

Pexels Deep in the flooded forests and blackwater channels of the Amazon, a creature that looks like it swam straight out of ...

Researchers have described a new species of marsupial frog from the Andes of northern Peru, a tiny amphibian that broods its ...

The project is expected to restore 130 hectares of degraded land, plant 20,000 trees, and create 300 jobs in one of South ...

Environmentalists say monitoring — enforcement of the laws — is responsible in large part for the steady decline, which has ...

Deep in Ecuador's Waorani territory, scientists discovered a 20-foot, 1,100-pound snake that turned out to be an entirely new ...

Pangolins curl into a ball to survive predators, but that same instinct makes them shockingly easy for poachers to grab by ...

For centuries, the standard wood used to make string instruments’ bows has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its ...

While Peru dominates the top of the rankings, SA’s Kruger National Park made it into 10th place. The park is famed as a home ...

The creatures, which weigh about the same as a small dog, have spiky black hair, orange-cream skin around their mouths and a ...

Meet Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey. (Daniel Rosengren) When biologists discover a new species in the ...

July 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforest, ...