An international team of arachnologists has discovered and described three new species of Neotropical ‘club-tailed’ scorpions: Ischnotelson peruassu...
A new hummingbird species, called the dry-forest sabrewing, has been discovered in the tropical forests of eastern Brazil.
A young male of the dry-forest...
Gondwanagaricites magnificus represents the oldest fossil mushroom to date and the first fossil mushroom from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
The...
Three new species of the ant genus Sericomyrmex have been discovered in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Sericomyrmex radioheadi, worker....
Brazilian taxonomists have discovered and described three new species of the ‘bird-eating’ tarantula genus Avicularia from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
Avicularia...
A University of Oxford-led team of scientists has observed bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus) in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Massimo Ciccozzi from the University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Italy, has modeled the evolutionary development and diversity...
Wild Brazilian bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) use stones to pound open defended food, including cashew nuts. And this activity dates back...
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.
The Amazon...
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...
Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of reptile that lived about 250 million years ago (Triassic period) have been found in the Brazilian state...
A team of scientists from the United States, Argentina, and Brazil has described a new species of small treefrog from the rocky outcrops of the Brazilian...
An international team of entomologists has described two new species of satyrid butterflies from the lowland tropical forests of the upper Amazon basin,...
A team of Brazilian arachnologists has described a new species of cave-dwelling harvestman in the genus Iandumoema, bringing the total number of species...
With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in northeastern Brazil, an international team of paleontologists has identified several amphibian species and...
A team of entomologists has discovered that a stingless bee species from Brazil feeds its larvae on a special type of fungus grown in the nest.
Brazilian...
A fossilized jawbone from a newly-described species of acrodontan iguana, Gueragama sulamericana, that lived about 80 million years ago has been unearthed...
A team of scientists has made a surprising discovery about two previously known species of tree frogs from Brazil: they are actually venomous.
The Greening’s...
