Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

Archaeologists in Peru have shared findings of an eight-year study that revealed an ancient city that formerly served as an ...

A tetra species (Knodus sp.) with colorful fins that is new to science and was discovered on the RAP expedition to Alto Mayo, Peru. Related species are popular in the aquarium trade.

Iquitos is a city of over 400,000 inhabitants located at the heart of the Peruvian Amazon and accessible only by boat or plane. In recent years, it has become a hotbed of wildlife trafficking in ...

Scientists Discover 27 New Species in Densely Populated Area Packed with 'Mystery' Animals Conservation International's expedition in Peru's Alto Mayo Landscape unearthed dozens of species new to ...

A scientific expedition to Peru has yielded a treasure trove of 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse, a "blob-headed" fish, and other zoological oddities.

An amphibious mouse with webbed feet and an unsightly blob-headed fish are among the more than two dozen new species scientists discovered in a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...

An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru's Amazon, according to Conservation International.