How to Survive shares seven brutal animal attacks from South America and survival tips for each. They highlight dangerous species, attack patterns, and how to defend yourself in remote wilderness.

Dr. John Clark, a research botanist with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, discovered four new species of airplants. They were ...

Across South America's expansive landscapes ... The eagle's diet consists largely of tree-dwelling animals, captured with ...

Q. I saw the following quote on a poster at a wildlife sanctuary in Florida: “Cranes are large birds with long beaks found on ...

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

Until now, the largest-known animal genome was that of another lungfish, the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri. The South American lungfish's genome was more than twice as big.

Illustrations of prehistoric North and South American animals including a glyptodon, lestodon, horse, mastodon, saber-toothed cat and a toxodon AP “Anything older than about 15,000 years still ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

South America has been hit by a series of heatwaves ... we have lost millions of hectares," said Fernanda Negron, an animal rights activist in the protest. "Millions of animals have been burned ...