Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

A carnivorous plant, nepenthes capture and digest small animals for nutrients ... The tree can be found in many parts of Brazil, including the Amazon rainforest, and produces dark purple fruits ...

As a child living on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, Patrícia Medici spent her playtime “walking along trails in the forest and watching animals.” Her passion for wildlife blossomed into ...

For all that live in the rainforest, some adaptation is required to the conditions. That is all the more true with regards to flora and fauna. With so many different types of plants, animals and ...

They also support plant and animal life ... remaining in the rainforest. Their reduced numbers are due to poachers and ...

The numbers of animal and ... The tropical rainforest has nurtured this "pool" for millions of years to become the exclusive home for 170,000 of the world's 250,000 known plant species.

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil’s lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ... to protect these animals – currently ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

But Dr Kourtchev and colleagues are still working on identifying the exact health risk posed to the rainforest's plants ... and if you have some unique animals or vegetation affected, that ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for ... was a "loss" from deforestation since animals "will no longer be able to cross to ...