Q: Why are so many South ... animals smaller than their counterparts on other continents? —Donald Dorfman | Sacramento, California Smaller animals have an easier time navigating dense ...

In the layered canopies of South American rainforests lurks a creature that ... The eagle's diet consists largely of ...

Most of us have heard of the Amazon Rainforest and with good ... scarlet macaws are iconic animals in the tropical forests of Central and South America. The macaws are the largest parrots in ...

The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South American rain forest home ... If caught on land, these animals have no chance to evade predators ...

Spider monkeys are large New World monkeys that live in tropical rainforests from central Mexico in the north to Bolivia in the south ... generally longer than the animal’s body and acts ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest ... part of South America and a lot to ...

The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America. More than half of the Earth's species of animals and plants live in tropical rainforests, even though rainforests only cover a ...