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. When ...

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.

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.

Rainforest trees share signals underground via the “Wood Wide Web.” Image Credit: Pintrest. Fact 4. 25% of medicines come ...

Imagine a rainforest so vast and dense that it shelters more than half of the world’s plant and animal species. The La Gamba (COBIGA) corridor in Costa Rica is one such place. Home to around ...