The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

Visiting the Amazon rainforest was the opposite of what I ... pink river dolphins, five species of monkeys, and hundreds of insects and birds. I'd definitely recommend the experience, even for ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

Weighing less than an apple, pygmy marmosets are the tiniest monkeys on earth. They have the ability to leap over 30 times their body length across the treetops in the Amazon jungle. (wildlife ...

Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the wildlife species we know about – and probably a lot that we don’t know yet. It is the ...

underexplored rainforest of the Amazon. The discoveries from 2010 to 2013, include a flame-patterned lizard, a vegetarian piranha, a thumbnail-sized frog and a monkey that purrs like a cat. Discovered ...

The first time Brazilian biologist Fernanda Abra saw a Groves’ titi monkey, one of the most ... s fourth biggest road network, and the Amazon rainforest. It’s a problem that Abra, who is ...

The Amazon jungle is the world’s largest rainforest ... allowing quick travel up the river and its tributaries to spot birds, monkeys, river otters, caimans, or river dolphins who call the ...

The most exciting sighting was squirrel monkeys — sociable little ... taught us about the rainforest. I learned poisonous snakes in the Amazon have a triangular head and that indigenous Cuyabeno ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...