The plans will add “a vast array of alluring animals and beautiful birds to a major part of the zoo. The Amazon River’s Edge will highlight animals from South America in beautiful and expansive ...

The big news this spring is AmaWaterways' first cruises in Colombia. But it is not the only line with South America on its mind.

An international team of researchers found the remains of a giant freshwater dolphin that is about 16 million years old and the largest river dolphin species ever found, the University of Zurich ...

The last of three maps visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands mapped ...

Physical geography South America has a very varied landscape. It has the world’s largest river system, the Amazon River basin, flowing through the Amazon rainforest.

In the end, Roosevelt, Kermit and all but three men would survive to place the river–renamed the Rio Roosevelt–on the map of South America.

Indigenous communities along the Amazon River are grappling with severe challenges as an unprecedented drought causes water levels to plummet.

The arrau, or giant South American River turtle (Podocnemis expansa), inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco rivers and their tributaries. A recent six nation survey assessed the health of populations ...

Ask any South American dinosaur which way the Amazon River flows and she would have told you east-to-west, the opposite of today. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers studying ancient ...