Peru grants legal rights to native stingless bees, setting a global precedent to protect key pollinators in the Amazon rainforest.

Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers.

The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful eagles in the world and serves as an apex predator within the rainforest canopy ...

Rice University biologist Amy Dunham has spent decades studying the mountainous rainforests of Madagascar's Ranomafana ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Wild orangutans in the Borneo rainforest have been observed washing themselves with soap – but researchers weren't sure why ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is transforming its former Rainforest exhibit into the Primate Forest. Betsy Kling took a tour of the construction.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

“The specimen is the first of its group to receive a detailed 3D reconstruction, which allowed us to look inside its skull and reveal its specialized teeth, helping us to trace the origin of ...

The now-shuttered restaurant used to be an establishment featuring animatronic figures of Al Capone and other mobsters.