Imagine walking through the bustling streets of Brisbane, Australia, only to realize that beneath your feet lies the ghostly ...

In the rainforest of Costa Rica, a soil-dwelling fish with skin-covered eyes maneuvered through the mud. Its small size and underground lifestyle likely helped it go unnoticed — until now.

Dubbed caecilia truncata or the truncated caecilian, the 19-inch, pale-gray critter is a type of elusive, legless amphibian that lives underground in South American rainforests. Caecilians look ...

Researchers hiked into the rainforest of Esmeraldas Province several ... Santiago Ron told McClatchy News via email. “They live underground, have reduced eyes and are rarely seen.

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Imagine a rainforest so vast and dense that it shelters ... the health of tree canopies 100 feet in the air, study roots with underground radar and measure sound decibels to track biodiversity.

FILE – In this photo shot from a television screen provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and ...