This keystone species of the Amazon River ecosystem are a fearsome predator with many names. Mike Bock Visitors can get up close to arapaima at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Amazonia exhibit.

The geoglyphs in this 200 million-year-old desert have baffled scientists who are scratching their heads about where they've come from. Geoglyphs are a type of land art, occasionally rock art ...

Some of the prominent ones are the pigment-based pictographs found in rock shelters in Central India and geoglyphs on laterite plateaus along the Konkan coast. In contrast, the petroglyphs of ...

If you travel south east from Cali, over the Andes mountains, you drop into the Amazon basin. From there, rainforest stretches for hundreds of kilometres to the border with Brazil – and far beyond.

A British adventurer has shared his incredible experience of backpacking around South America, which led him to live with an Amazonian tribe. Marwan Busin, 26, spent five days hunting with the ...

The Amazônia Revelada project, led by archaeologist Eduardo Neves, is using LiDAR technology to scan areas of the Amazon rainforest for lost structures. LiDAR, which employs lasers to map the ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...