Embark on an extraordinary adventure through the Amazon Wilderness, the world’s largest tropical rainforest. This ecosystem is home to a stunning variety of animals, many of which can only be found in ...

A dinner plate-sized tarantula with a big appetite preyed on a young opossum during a recent hunt in the Amazon rainforest — and the horrifying scene was caught on tape.

Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of the world's diet originating from these lush, tropical areas. Here is a ...

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 ...

A WWF report launched in 2010 – Amazon Alive! A decade of discovery 1999-2009 showed that between 1999 and 2009, at least 1,200 new species of plants and vertebrates had been discovered in the Amazon.

After all, the Amazon is the largest, most breathtakingly exotic, myth-shrouded rainforest on Earth, spanning nine countries and housing an astonishingly diverse array of mammals, birds, reptiles ...

Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all known species. To date, at least 40,000 plants, 2,200 fish, 1,200 ...

The Amazon rainforest is biologically the richest region on Earth, hosting about 25% of global biodiversity. The study was published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Climate Change.