In southeastern Brazil, researchers discovered a new species named Rineloricaria buckupi, or Buckup’s whiptail catfish, in the rivers near Rio de Janeiro. This “armored” catfish, covered in body ...

Brazilian prosecutors filed Thursday criminal charges against the man accused of ordering the 2022 killings of Indigenous peoples expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon ...

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A floristic inventory was prepared for the Dois Irmãos State Park (PEDI, Recife, PE, Brazil), one of the most significant Atlantic Forest remnants (1,158 hectares) and an essential urban protected ...

The idea of keeping spiders as pets is terrifying to some people, but to others – they are a dream pet. Spiders are hardy, low-maintenance creatures with striking colors and fascinating behavior. They ...

Biologist Christian Raboch made a horrifying discovery in Brazil after checking into a rented room for a science conference — it was infested with brown recluse spiders, whose bites can rot flesh and ...

We compared two forest areas in southern Brazil, one isolated from cattle for 28 years and another used by cattle with a high animal load. Our results indicate that cattle modify the floristic ...

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems ... to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north ...

Brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba) are endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil and Argentina and were considered the primate species most affected by yellow fever, a deadly viral disease ...

A satellite image of the Juruena River shows areas of deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Dark green areas are intact tropical forest, light green areas are cattle farms, and yellow or brown ...

When the annual U.N. climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belém in November 2025, it will be tempting to focus on the drama and disunity among major nations.