It hasn't been spotted in the Atlantic Forest for over 100 years. Hidden trail cameras capture footage of South America's ...

Sometimes history surprises us with unexpected discoveries. In Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), cameras from the State Institute for ...

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

After 100 years, the South American tapir reappears in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, sparking hope for conservation. Can this lost species survive modern threats?

The large yellow-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis denticulata (vulnerable), from South America and the Caribbean ... Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as ...

While we're going back to first grade to review our paleontology facts, check out these 15 epic extinct animals ... They lived in the region that's now South America and their distant relative ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

Once found in the jungles of Africa, researchers in South America have now discovered links tying ... [+] these extinct primates ... they’ve transported species to entirely new worlds.

Discover 8 incredible animals that were once thought extinct but have made surprising comebacks, from the Majorcan Midwife ...

“Almost every big river in North America and Europe is massively modified” through damming, putting freshwater species at risk, he said. In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also ...

As just one example of a Southeast waterway in peril, the Coosa River is the site of the greatest modern extinction event in North America, where 36 species went extinct following the construction of ...