Brazil, a vast country that stretches across South America, is full of hidden wonders that even many geography buffs may not know. In this video, we uncover 10 surprising facts about Brazil’s ...

However, jaguars live in Central and South America, where they primarily inhabit ... of a North American Black Panther As many fascinating facts as there are about panthers, these dark, stealthy ...

Wildlife officials in South America are working hard to rerelease endangered condors and jaguars back into the wild and increase their populations.

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Why South America’s ancient mammals may have lost out to northern counterparts Extinctions left fewer animals available to migrate north, a study suggests ...

Fossil bones found in Argentina of a large armadillo relative with cut marks suggestive of butchering indicate humans were present in southern South America some 21,000 years ago, according to ...

Two new species of fossil rodent shed light on South America as an evolutionary hot spot, a new study says. Both have supertough teeth, which suggest they may have roamed the world's earliest ...

More than 100 million birds breed in the region, and many are likely to be vulnerable to the virus, scientists warned.

Over 346,000 fire hotspots recorded in South America this year, surpassing 2007 record Brazil and Bolivia deploy thousands of firefighters, struggle against extreme weather Smoke from fires ...

More than 163 animals have been released back into the Colombian wild. The 15 different species of wildlife were released to the Casanare province, after being seized and rehabilitated by ...

Now researchers have found traces of what may have been among the first rodents to infest South America: five tiny animals that lived more than 41 million years ago.