South America’s piranha family of fish — notorious as eaters of flesh — can be traced back to a single ancestor which dispersed when the Amazon was flooded by seawater some five million years ago, ...

Italian priest Giovanni Gallo took charge of the parish of Santa Cruz do Arari, on Brazil’s Marajó Island, in the 1970s. Once there, he funded several infrastructure projects in an isolated community ...

Have you ever wondered what secrets the Amazon Basin holds beneath its murky waters? I'm Flavio Gallo Cardozo, a biologist from Bolivia, and I'm excited to share with you the journey of discovering a ...

This 4-day Amazon journey goes deep into Brazil’s rainforest, far beyond roads, cell service, and normal tourist routes. From ...

RIO NEGRO, Brazil (WTHR) - One of the most popular things to do in the Amazon rainforest is fishing for piranha. In Sept. 2015, photographer Steve Rhodes and I spent several days at the Anavilhanas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the ...

Piranhas are among the most deadly creatures in the water, with razor-sharp teeth capable of slicing flesh easily, but a fish in the Amazon River basin has developed a "bulletproof vest" to protect ...

This video shows piranhas swimming underwater among submerged wood, rocks, aquatic plants, and dark green water, with one ...

Piranhas inhabit exclusively the fresh waters of South America. Their geographical distribution extends from the Orinoco River basin (Venezuela) to the North, down to that of the Paraná (Argentina) to ...

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