When intact, the Amazonian forest is dense and difficult to penetrate, both on foot and with scanning technologies. Over the past several years, however,...
A strange tree found in the Manu National Park in Peru in 1973 is a new genus and species of the small, mainly neotropical plant family Picramniacea, according...
Archaeologists on the ERC project LASTJOURNEY have discovered spectacular rock pictographs in three separate rock shelters in the Guaviare Department of...
A duo of arachnologists from Brazil has discovered a new species of short-tailed whip scorpion in eastern Amazon.
Male of Surazomus saturninoae: (A) lateral,...
An international team of scientists has found that the upper Amazon region gave birth to the domesticated Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate...
Every year, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert cross the Atlantic Ocean, bringing vital phosphorus and other fertilizers to depleted Amazon...
An international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists analyzing records of pollen, charcoal and other plant remains like phytoliths spanning more...
