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 ...

Visitors to the Amazon who expect a "Discovery Channel-like experience" with "jaguars in every tree" and "anacondas on every ...

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.

Study reveals how human history—from Indigenous stewardship to colonization—shaped the genetic diversity of Brazil Nut trees ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Nine months ahead of this year's annual U.N. climate summit, known as COP30, lodging prices in the Brazilian ...

Amazon river, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil South America. Image by A1804 via depositphotos.com The Pink Amazon ... Image via depositphotos.com One of the world’s slowest animal species, the sloth, also ...

From the glacial fjords of Chilean Patagonia to the beaches and mountains of Baja California, Hispanic America, representing ...

Amazon Rainforest Inhabitants Lived Alongside Ice Age Creatures, Researchers Find Rock Paintings of Now-Extinct Animals In ...

Hundreds of Brazilian indigenous people from the Amazonian state of Para on Monday continued the protests that began two ...

An international team of researchers has suggested a "wild" new theory to explain the creation of these mysterious ancient ...

bookies taking bets outside bars and newspaper stands became a fixture across Brazil, with the game reaching even the most remote corners of the Amazon rainforest. By the 1970s, the animal lottery ...