The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny insects, named for their frog-shaped bodies and powerful jumping legs, are so ...

A Bolivian who claimed to have been missing in the Amazon rainforest alone for a month on Tuesday recounted eating insects and worms, collecting water in his boots and drinking his own urine to stay ...

A colossal stick insect found living in the highland rainforest of northeastern Australia could be the chonkiest (read: heaviest) bug the continent has to offer. Acrophylla alta, as the species has ...

A new study collected tens of thousands of insects from the rainforest canopy in the Brazilian Amazon and found that 60% of the specimens occur at a height of 8 meters (26 feet) and higher. Most of ...

For most of us, the jungle is a backdrop on a screen, thick green walls, dripping leaves, unseen sounds. Many must have thought that national parks are the only places where you get this kind of vibe ...

Perched on a leaf 1.5 meters above the ground, a female praying mantis of the species Choeradodis rhomboidea watched as entomologists passed by, flashlights in hand, in the ZF2 Biological Reserve of ...