The electric eel is long and narrow like an eel, but it is actually not an eel at all. In fact, electric eels are probably more closely related to catfishes.
electricus Size: up to 9 feet Habitat: muddy rivers of the Amazon
Over 80 kinds of poison frogs live in the tropical forests of Central and South America.
Phyllobates terribilis Habitat: lowland forests in the Amazon
Animals and plants are usually adapted to survive best in particular environments, known as their habitats.
For example, an Amazon river fish couldn’t survive
Animals and plants are usually adapted to survive best in particular environments, known as their habitats.
For example, an Amazon river fish couldn’t survive
Scott Schaefer, Curator, Division of Vertebrate Zoology
fish diversity in poorly known regions, such as the Amazon
Throughout his political career, Roosevelt sustained an intense curiosity about the natural world. Within a few years of leaving the presidency, Roosevelt nearly died while charting an unmapped Bra…
to help map an uncharted river; discovers it’s an Amazon
Investigate the ways Earth, its climate, and the humans that populate it have changed since the very first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970.
SPLITTING] [TEXT: We’ve lost nearly ⅕ of the Brazilian Amazon
Robert Carneiro, Curator Emeritus, Division of Anthropology
projects on three indigenous tribes inhabiting the Amazon
This Late Paracas (circa 100 BC) spear-thrower is made of whalebone, and the thumb rest was carved from a sperm whale’s tooth. A drawing in the Early Hunters case in the first section of this hall…
Paracas Spear-Thrower Southern South America Amazon
The early peoples of South America may have hunted a giant ground sloth, Mylodon darwinii, that became extinct 10,000 years ago. Its skin and dung, displayed here, were a gift from President T…
Paracas Spear-Thrower Southern South America Amazon
