"The miniaturization process hasn't affected any of its organs or its skeleton." Researchers astounded after discovering ...

Shortly after, Mirco Solé at the State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil wondered if the species could be the smallest amphibian yet discovered. But only a handful of specimens had been ...

Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other ...

Brazil is home to the world’s largest number of amphibian species, most of them in the Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity hotspot encompassing Brazil’s largest cities, São Paulo and Rio de ...

Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a “blob-headed fish” and a ...

In a river of eastern Brazil, an “armored” creature swam along searching for the next meal to sink its “copper colored” teeth ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that three Brazilian butterflies will be listed as endangered ...

Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) have detected a new species of buffalo shrimp which they named Alpheus Coralvivo after the Living Coral Project, it was reported.

In a mountain stream of southern Brazil, an “armored” creature swam along searching for the next meal to sink its “copper ...