New monkey discovered in Brazilian Amazon

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday.The newly found monkey was first spotted by scientists...

Discovered in the Amazon new species of miniature transpa...

The Dalmatian piaba is transparent, allowing you to view their internal organs such as the swim bladder, the bubble that the animal has inside the body to control the depth while swimming. A new species of ornamental fish that inhabits the...

Albino turtles born in the Amazon reserve

Animals have no pigmentation, and become easy prey. The turtles will be bred in captivity for a year. As with humans, many animals born with a problem that prevents the production of melanin, pigment that protects the skin color of the sun. ...

Fossil reinforces the theory of link between Africa and A...

Researchers from Rio Grande do Sul showed Tuesday that the fossil of about 240 million years of the skull of a cynodont, reptile very common to be found in Africa. According to the team of the Lutheran University of Brazil (Ulbra), the...

Brazil, world’s largest Catholic nation

A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral...

São Paulo is becoming “The Jetsons”

The number of helicopters over Sao Paulo and air traffic turned the city into a “real episode of South America (TV show) The Jetsons,” says a full-page report published last Friday in the British newspaper The Guardian. The...