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 remains of a "weird" creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant-eater Tanyka was a “living fossil” when it stalked ...

In the Amazon’s Putumayo basin of Colombia, a new species of fish was discovered swimming among submerged roots in a shallow forest stream. That fish, which is roughly the size of the average pinky ...

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on Earth, a vast green world stretching across multiple South American countries and home to an astonishing variety of life. Its ...