Tag: Brazil

At up to seven feet long and up to 110 pounds, it’s no wonder that giant anteaters are sometimes called ant bears. These large mammals are near cousins of sloths,...

Bald uakaris are unique looking creatures—the monkeys appear to have floating red skulls on a bulldog-sized version of Chewbacca’s body, complete with a short, football-shaped tail. The primates are a...

Fires in the Amazon have led to the death or displacement of an estimated 1,422 jaguars over three years in Brazil. Fires have increased in Brazil in recent years, many...

Conservationists watched over the mass hatching of about 100,000 river turtle nestlings on a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil as cameras captured it on film. Giant South American...

High school students throughout Brazil agree that conservation is important, and they strongly disagree that conservation is the responsibility of rich countries alone, a survey found. Researchers surveyed students ages...

A lone female of one of the world’s rarest birds was sighted recently in a Brazil forest reserve. Stresemann’s bristlefront (Merulaxis stresemanni) is listed as critically endangered by the International...

While the long-term effects of climate change are likely to spell trouble for sea turtles, researchers found that some populations could see short-term benefits. Looking at 17 loggerhead sea turtle...

Brazil’s Araguaian river dolphins (Inia araguaiaensis) are normally hard to find and study. But researchers from the University of Vermont and University of St. Andrews came cross them near a...

Common nighthawks (Chordeiles minor) have declined about 80 percent since 1968, but researchers hadn’t yet known where they go for the winter — information that could be important in understanding...

While hunting — both legal and illegal — is prevalent in Brazil’s eastern Amazon, researchers had never looked at which species people are hunting the most until recently. “It’s necessary...