Amazon River’s Edge, and spoke with zookeepers about the animals who now call the Rose City home. The Amazon River’s Edge sits on the original site of the oldest portions of the zoo from 1953.

From the fearsome piranha and vampire fish to the mighty anaconda, the crocodile, and the candiru, these are among the most terrifying reptiles, insects, spiders, and fish.

A colonial-era myth about endangered pink river dolphins in the Amazon has led to a false belief that perfumes or pusangas made from their body parts are potent love potions.According to a recent ...

Pete Casey’s epic, six-year trek along the entire length of the Amazon River nears its final steps for his ambitious journey. There was the pit viper that bit his pant leg. River pirates and ...

Instead, the "quintessential experiences" are more "sublime than superlative," like canoeing, hiking under the tree canopy or boating up the Amazon River ... with birds and animals" like macaws ...

Eventually, they came up with the name Amazon, a reference to the river in South America ... Full-size homes, cars, cigarettes, and live animals are some things you might have to leave your ...

Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels ...

They are found in freshwater marshes and pools throughout the Amazon Basin, from Colombia to Brazil. Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what ...