An extremely rare species of Amazonian wild canine nicknamed the “ghost dog” may have a higher population than initially thought, new data suggests. Short-eared dog — the formal name for the species — ...

By Carlos Minuano “One of the world’s largest pharmacies is being destroyed,” says Benki Piyãko, a leader of the Ashaninka ...

Researchers tracked the rare canine species over 23 years, using a network of camera traps to snap 4,635 images of them ...

Hidden deep in the forests of Bolivia and Peru is a species so mysterious it has been dubbed the “ghost dog.” The short-eared dog ( Atelocynus microtis) has been deemed one of the region’s least-known ...

During a severe drought and heat wave in 2023, Amazonian lakes reached their highest recorded temperatures. Water temperatures in some areas climbed to an astonishing 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees ...

In today's video, we explore the history behind why the uncontacted Amazonian tribes choose to remain uncontacted, & why they ...

A wooden statue of a prengant woman in front of Amazonian members outside the Vatican on Oct. 19, 2019. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – A document released earlier this month showed ...

(Phys.org)—In the tribal societies of the Amazon forest, violent conflict accounted for 30 percent of all deaths before contact with Europeans, according to a recent study by University of Missouri ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has sworn in Flávio Dino, the first justice of the country’s highest court with an Amazonian background in almost 20 years. Amazonian states have gone largely unrepresented at ...

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Ice-age aridity in Amazonia was proposed to account for the origins of Amazonian biodiversity 1. It was suggested that Amazonian rainforests were replaced by savannah during ice ages, and that forest ...