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,...
Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly-identified species of the parasitoid wasp genus Zatypota transforms Anelosimus eximius, one of only about 25 species...
An international team of scientists has found that the upper Amazon region gave birth to the domesticated Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate...
An international team of researchers from Ecuador and Peru has discovered two new frog species living in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon basin —...
Herpetologists are claiming they have discovered a new species of frog living in the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador.
The Yaku glassfrog (Hyalinobatrachium...
A new species of the genus Pristimantis (rain frogs) has been discovered in southeastern Peru by an international team of scientists.
Pristimantis pluvialis,...
Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...
Scientists led by Dr. Marcelo Andrade of the Universidade Federal do Para report that they have discovered a new species of omnivorous freshwater fish...
Speakers of the Nheengatú language talk about time of day by pointing at where the Sun would be in the sky at that particular time, according to a study...
A team of scientists led by Dr Julio César Dalponte of the Institute for the Conservation of Neotropical Carnivores in Atibaia has described a new species...
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...
An international group of scientists headed by Dr Laura Miglio from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Brazil has described a new tarantula species from...
Scientists have described a spectacular new species of shade lizard from the cloudforests of northwestern Ecuador.
Alopoglossus viridiceps, male, about...
U.S. researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of New Mexico have used satellite images to track the movements and demographic health...
