The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat”— marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

Thousands of indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon marched through the capital of Brazil to emphasize the crucial role the ...