With so many different types of plants, animals and insects living in the rainforest ... one of the coolest flowers in bloom. The balsa tree is a fast-growing tree that can reach up to 100 ...

The team named it Tessmannia princeps. In addition to its massive girth, the tree grows a little taller than others around it in the rainforest, which is why the team gave it the name "princeps ...

helping it move from tree to tree. And it's eating a banana. One of over three thousand types of fruit that grow in the rainforest. There's an insect too! A butterfly. They can taste fruit through ...

“Due to the region's complex geological history, there are several different types of rainforest growing in ... documenting the highest number of tree species at a single locality known to ...

The tree can be found in many parts of Brazil, including the Amazon rainforest, and produces dark ... as well as other types of toys, due to its aforementioned lightweight and high strength ...

A female orangutan forages for ripe figs in the rainforest ... than a thousand types of orchids, or its dozens of kinds of carnivorous pitcher plants, or its 3,000-plus tree species, including ...

Learn how gibbons’ rotating wrists and powerful grips let them soar through trees and navigate dense rainforest canopies with ease.

But that wasn’t the only new species found in the rainforest. Litoria grinpela, the green torrent tree frog, differs from the kikori torrent tree frog by having predominantly green coloration ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in ...

Recorders called "guardians" are equipped with long-range capture technology and placed at the tops of tree canopies to record sounds for bioacoustics research. Rainforest Connection The U.S. Fish ...