Over 346,000 fire hotspots recorded in South America this year ... an animal rights activist in the protest. "Millions of animals have been burned to death." In Brazil, a drought that began ...

Predator Battleground: Survival in South America is never assured. From killer dolphins to the largest cat in the Americas, this vast continent is a lethal ...

Q: Why are so many South American animals smaller than their counterparts on other continents? —Donald Dorfman | Sacramento, California Smaller animals have an easier time navigating dense ...

the maned wolf is not closely related to either of those animals. In fact, the maned wolf forms its own genus, Chrysocyon, which translates to "golden dog." It lives in South America, including in ...

and not all of the dead animals that did turn up were tested for the virus. But hundreds of thousands of dead seabirds, including boobies, cormorants and gulls, were reported in South America.

A new species of tiny deer has been discovered in the central Andes in Peru, becoming the first new cervid species found in South America for ... “He’d seen the animals in the field, and ...

"So it's one of the oldest [pieces of] evidence of human presence here in South America," Delgado says. During this time, at the end of the Pleistocene, numerous large animals populated the harsh ...

Known as the Culex lactator, the species is normally found in Central and South America, NPR reports ... the interaction between humans and animals including insects. It also "may improve ...

The bone, found in the fossil-rich Tatacoa Desert in Colombia, which sits at the northern tip of South America ... and mostly ate other animals," Cooke says. The bird's leg bone was found by ...