Jefferson Elementary School students have been taking a closer look at the rainforest to boost their language arts skills. First grade students recently completed a six-week unit about animals, their ...

In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

Stony Brook University’s Dr. Patricia Wright was introduced to an amazing parcel of land in southeastern Madagascar.

Some of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires, ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in Tanzania. Scientists have named the canopy-piercing tree Tessmannia princeps ...

"Tropical rainforests have, by far, the largest species number compared to forests in other regions. This study revealed one of the coexistence mechanisms of animals inhabiting there. We would ...

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, home to many endangered species of wildlife and plants, including orangutans, ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

The habitats beneath tropical ... and animal species worldwide. That staggering figure can be partly attributed to climate stability over many years and the unique ability of sub-canopy rainforest ...

A tropical rainforest gets between 96 and 177 inches every year ... With that in mind, here are 10 amazing animals that live in rainforests around the world. False Vampire bats, also called ghost bats ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...