A two-week research cruise off the coast of Brazil has returned with 31 animals that appear to be species never formally described by science, most of them transparent or gelatinous creatures pulled ...

A new study shows that stable zinc isotopes in stingray muscle tissue capture ecological information that carbon and nitrogen ...

Whenever Wagner Fischer drives, he notices the roadkill. As a graduate student in the 1990s, Fischer, now a biologist with the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, traveled through Brazil’s ...

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Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested 45 people and rescued hundreds of exotic animals in the biggest ever operation against wildlife traffickers in the world's most biodiverse nation. Brightly colored ...

Brazil’s Pantanal is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including its own “Big 5.” Remote lodging in natural areas, daily game drives, and a sense that you’re completely away from it all await. The ...

A reexamination of microfossils found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul shows that the marks previously interpreted as traces of worms or other small oceanic animals are actually ...

Brazil’s thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus) is a picky eater that lives only in dense coastal habitats with well-developed canopies that allow the animals to move between trees; however, ...

A wildlife rescue center in Rio de Janeiro is giving animals a second chance after they’ve been torn from the Atlantic Forest by poachers, a Mongabay short documentary showed. At the Vida Livre (Free ...

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