The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the ...

The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South American rain forest home ... If caught on land, these animals have no chance to evade predators ...

(They may be attractive to mates because malarial or sick animals develop pale faces ... preferring permanently or seasonally flooded rain forests and locations near water sources, such as ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic ... shielding the forest from fires—both natural and those set by humans. "Bemaraha has unusual animal and plant populations ...

The animals are ace jumpers, using powerful legs and extremely long tails to spring great distances. This allows the primates to move quickly through the forest canopy or snatch flying insects out ...

Abundant in the tropical rain forests of Central America, from southern Mexico to Panama, green basilisks spend much of their time in the trees and are never far from a body of water. When ...

This year a team sponsored by National Geographic magazine ... As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even ...

Ecuador’s high court ultimately ruled that wild animals have rights that are protected under the country’s constitution. The monkeys, which inhabit numerous protected park and forest areas ...