Did you know you can actually swim in the Amazon River? In Ecuador you can! In this video, Travel + Leisure guides you on an ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive profile the black caimans and bullet ants of the rainforest and explain why staying ...

(Pop) Icon: Britney, a high-definition video showing thousands of images of singer Britney Spears in succession, was created by New York City composer and conceptual artist R. Luke DuBois in 2010. Out ...

The red-crowned Amazon is a beautiful parrot, but despite populations in the U.S., it may be going extinct in its ancestral ...

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...

FIU marine evolutionary biologist Heather Bracken-Grissom assisted in identification, coordinating with a third-party lab to ...

Such a larger-than-life character was a ripe role for a number of actors who have played him in the movies and on TV. On this Presidents Day, let's shout out a great big "Bully!" to these five men who ...

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts. Now they're hoping for ...

While there is truly no shortage of so bad they’re good sci-fi movies (we have the 1950s and early 1960s to thank for some ...

The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) may just be the insect equivalent of a giant, flawless diamond. The species has a ...

From carving nocturnal visions on clay tablets to now journalling on paper and through apps, we have long been fascinated by ...