Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned ...

Certain birds may live longer in tropical climates than temperate ones, researchers confirm. Image Credit: Pixabay To try and explain this peculiar phenomenon, the researchers carefully analyzed ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical ...

Researchers have carried out research in Southwest Cameroon to assess which proportion of forest would be necessary in order to provide sufficient habitat for rainforest bird species.

Researchers have long puzzled over why tropical songbirds have fewer offspring than temperate songbirds living at higher latitudes. According to a new Science study, clutch size is a function of ...

Climate change is shrinking many Amazonian birds Decades of data finds shows tropical birds are evolving longer wings and smaller bodies.

They analysed organisms ranging from microscopic mites and earthworms in the soil, to beetles and birds in tree canopies, comparing tropical rainforest with rubber and oil palm plantations in ...

Baby birds, especially when naked and newly hatched, should be vulnerable to skin infections and parasites. Yet even in the stuffy confines of a nest in a steamy tropical rainforest, nestlings ...

We Can’t Save the Rainforest Without Rainforest Animal Poop Large, intact forests are crucial for stabilizing the climate. And the fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals that live there are ...

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.