Their name is derived from the Tupi language, from the people who inhabited Coastal Brazil, and means “grass-eater.” This is because fully-grown Capybaras can eat up to 8 pounds of grass daily. The ...

According to Brazil's National Center for the ... packed full of different species of plants and animals. The Pantanal, located between the Amazon and Sao Paulo, lost some 600,000 hectares to ...

Jan. 13, 2025 — Researchers have witnessed behavior in the wild which could reveal critical clues about how the endangered whale shark ... Sharks and Rays Benefit from Global Warming, but Not ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — This week, the world's governments are meeting in Geneva for the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

February 2, 2025 • Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Night - Cloudy with a 38% chance of precipitation. Winds N. The overnight low will be 78 °F (25.6 °C). Cloudy with a high of 86 °F (30 °C) and a 66% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at ...

Trump nominates a retired general known for inflammatory remarks. Trump’s trade nominee defends the president’s plan to reorder international trade. The Trump Administration’s Major Moves So ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies, sailors ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

suggesting that human ACE2 transgenic pigs are a viable large animal model for COVID-19.