Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF said Wednesday.

Strange new frog species smaller than fingernail discovered - There may be more such miniature frog species than previously ...

What's first on your wish list - the Great Otway National Park in Victoria with plenty of platypuses or the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, which David Attenborough called the "most ...

These extraordinary rainforest species, each differently adapted to their environment, are rarely observed due to their ...

The glass frog lives in Central and South American ... The world's largest spider, the goliath bird-eating spider, lives in the Amazon rainforest. Despite its size, it is rarely seen because ...

At over a foot long, the world's biggest spider is quite a sight. Adventurers and arachnaphobes alike might be wondering, where are these giants?

However, the frog had to give up finally ... Year Artist “Emerald Gem” I was on a night walk in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest when I stumbled across this emerald tree boa.

dacnis, pays tribute to Project Dacnis, a conservation, research and education NGO that maintains private areas of the Atlantic Rainforest ... of these miniature frogs may be far greater than ...

From brilliantly colored orchids to tiger-striped frogs, scientists have uncovered ... Mayor Central for the forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest, saying it blocks outsiders from entering ...