A two-week research cruise off the coast of Brazil has returned with evidence of more than two dozen previously unknown ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new ...

Whenever Wagner Fischer drives, he notices the roadkill. As a graduate student in the 1990s, Fischer, now a biologist with the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, traveled through Brazil’s ...

BRAZIL (WNCT) — More than 2,000 wildfires have ravaged Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, this month, taking an incalculable toll on wildlife, as dramatically illustrated by video from ...

BRASILIA, May 2 (Reuters) - Poaching and trafficking in wild animals such as monkeys and parrots is reaching critical proportions in Brazil, home of more animal species than any other country, a ...

SAO PAULO, May 22 (Reuters) - Brazil on Monday declared a state of animal health emergency for 180 days in response to the country's first ever detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus ...