What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

There are nearly 90 unique tarantula species in Peru, ranging from nine-inch giants to tarantulas named after Star Wars ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, there is a real river that steams like a cauldron and reaches temperatures above 90°C. It is so hot that falling into the wrong section can cause severe burns in seconds, ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

A research team from Munich has identified a previously unknown communication mechanism in harvestmen. Five closely related ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Peru's scariest and most scenic road, 8B from Chachapoyas to Cajamarca. This was the most consistently nervous/scared I've ever felt on a motorcycle. But it is unmissable, and definitely one of, if ...

The bitter cold temperatures that are lingering across the area forced the Akron Zoo to close to the public Tuesday and ...

“In a community-based conservation system, if everything is built correctly, then not only is there no overhunting, there is ...

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero ...

This week brings something new — an Armchair Traveler series I’m exploring for 2026. Take a mini-trip with me as we venture in a literary way to a new country each month. Grab your virtual passport, b ...

Friedrich, S., Schwager, M., Heß, M., Glaw, F. & Lehmann, T. Evidence for fluorescence-supported species recognition in syntopic harvestmen. Sci Rep 16, 2631 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026 ...