Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he ...

Bigger bodies require more heat, which is why most large reptiles are found around the tropics. Titanoboa lived during a time of elevated global temperatures, during which the Amazon rainforest ...

378 reptiles, over 400 amphibians and between 2,500 - 3,000 freshwater fish. The Amazon is also very important in the world's fight against climate change. Scientists often call the rainforest the ...