The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

Hey, Capybara! You've got some tough new competition for cutest rodent in all the land! Enter the red-rumped agouti, a total cutie, down to its booty! Here's a description of the cutie patootie, by ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

Most land-based mammals in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the savannization of the region. From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...

Social, serene and surprisingly zen, capybaras are the rainforest’s chill ambassadors. They often lounge beside crocodiles without a hint of fear. With talons bigger than a grizzly bear’s claws, the ...

The Amazon rainforest, spanning eight countries, is a vital ecosystem housing 10% of Earth's species and holding 20% of the world's freshwater. It stores billions of tons of carbon, crucial for ...