Here’s how it works. Incredibly rare footage of a fight between a sloth and an ocelot has been captured deep in the Amazon rainforest. Sloths are better known for their super-slow lifestyles ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires ... including 16,000 known tree species. But governments have historically viewed it as an area to be exploited, with ...

South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the Amazon rainforest is home ... find more types ...

then prowl around the sloth’s tree, looking up hungrily. Stretch like the sloth waking up. Tap your hands on your shoulders, then pat your back, then slap your hands on the floor as the rain.

Dark earth is just one clue to how early Amazonians husbanded the rainforest. While the Amazon is home to some 16,000 tree species, a seminal study of 1,170 forest plots showed that half of them ...

Harpy eagles are now mainly found in the Amazon rainforest, where tree cutting ... Their talons, capable of snatching a grown sloth from a tree, can be larger than a grizzly bear’s claw, and ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest is a massive area ... including 16,000 known tree species. But governments have historically viewed it as an area to be colonized and exploited ...