Pablo J. Venegas is the lead herpetologist in Peru for the Rainforest Partnership. For nearly 20 years, the organization has worked with Indigenous communities to lead rainforest protection and ...

Scientists discovered a new frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, distinguishing it from nearly identical relatives through DNA and its unique call. Adenomera varcena highlights ...

Deep in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, scientists have identified afrog species that had remained invisible to science until now. Named Adenomera varcena, the newly described amphibian ...

South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. It covers just 1% of the planet ...