A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

The new species lives in a “very dense” rainforest with a “deep layer” of leaves, rocks and loam soil, researchers said. The ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an ...

Hikers in Papua New Guinea heard an “eep-eep-eep” sound and followed it to a yellow-spotted animal. Take a look.

Back to top What plants and animals are found in a rainforest? Rainforests are home to a wider range of plants, animals and other organisms than anywhere else on Earth with millions of different ...

As the ecology of Hainan's rainforest has improved ... 30 specimens in 2019 to 36 in 2022. This species is on the verge of extinction and is found only on Hainan Island. Studies show that there ...

The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat”— marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a hawk tried to attack a “large” 4-foot-long predator but ended up becoming its prey instead. A scientist stumbled up on the scene and w ...

Wang L, Chang Y-F, Sun X-X, Sluys R, Liu D-Z, Dong Z-M, Chen G-W (2025) ZooKeys Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. → 'Long'-legged ...

Tropical rainforests are found across the world near the Equator ... The biggest animals live on the forest floor. Most rainforest animals have unique features which help them move through the ...