Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large human population before Europeans arrived. Dr Lombardo is head of a team proving them wrong.

An assortment of creatures native to the Amazon Rainforest will soon make their homes at the Caldwell Zoo. This included the ...

In March 2024, our team published an article titled "A New Species of Piranha (Serrasalmus, Serrasalmidae) from de Upper Madeira River System, Amazon Basin, Bolivia" in the Journal of Ichthyology.

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in a tributary of Amazon river in Brazil this past week. Experts suspect the deaths may have been caused by severe drought and rising heat.

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

River pirates and guerrilla rebels ... In December 2021, he finally climbed out of the Amazon basin, trading endless muck and mosquito bites for the high-and-dry altitude of the mighty Andes.