The mightiest rainforest in the world is shrinking ... Home to a staggering number of species of plants, animals, insects, and fungi, the Amazon holds a rich array of the life that exists on ...

Los Amigos lies in the rainforest of southeastern Peru's ... But scientists don't yet know its full effects on other forest animals in the Amazon, where more than 10,000 species of plants and ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to one-tenth of the animal species in the world, according to some scientists. Jaguars, sloths, caimans, howler monkeys, capybaras, pink river dolphins, macaws, anacondas ...

South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the ...

Related New reptile species, Calotes wangi, discovered in China Efforts to protect endangered North Atlantic ... Finding fossils in the Amazon rainforest only is possible during the dry season ...

According to Audubon, the Peruvian Amazon encompasses almost 60 percent of the country and is second only to the Brazilian Amazon in size. The Amazon rainforest ... that a new animal or plant ...

Some of the adults smoked tobacco mixed with the wood from a local tree in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The seemingly endless loop of the procession, taking place over six long days this month ...