A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River by an international group of researchers from Brazil and the United States.
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An international team of entomologists has described two new species of satyrid butterflies from the lowland tropical forests of the upper Amazon basin,...
A new study, published in the journal Nature, shows that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American population that carried...
An international team of paleontologists has described three new species of caimans that lived in the swampy waters of what is now northeastern Peru during...
Every year, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert cross the Atlantic Ocean, bringing vital phosphorus and other fertilizers to depleted Amazon...
The chicks of an Amazonian bird called the Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) mimic toxic, hairy caterpillars of the flannel moths both in appearance...
Primate ecologist Dr Laura Marsh of the Global Conservation Institute in Santa Fe, NM, has described five new species of the genus Pithecia (saki monkeys)...
An international team of ichthyologists led by Dr Ralf Britz of Natural History Museum in London, UK, has described a new fish species from the Rio Negro in...
Ichthyologists have described a new genus and species of electric knifefish from the Rio Negro, the Amazonia State of Brazil.
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Native to the forests and open savannas of Brazil and Colombia, Tapirus kabomani is the newest member of the tapir family (Tapiridae).
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Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...
Scientists have reported the discovery of two new species of toothed electric knifefishes that live under rafts of unrooted grasses and water hyacinth...
An international team of scientists from Switzerland, Australia, Germany and the United States has discovered remains of three hunter-gatherer settlements...
An international team of ichthyologists has described a remarkable new genus and species of miniature fish from the Rio Negro, one of the best explored...
An international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists analyzing records of pollen, charcoal and other plant remains like phytoliths spanning more...
