The Shanay-Timpishka is one of the tributaries of the Amazon River. Even in the non-rainy season, the 5km wide Amazon River and its surrounding forest were always full of mystery. The tribes and flora and fauna of that forest, which is more than half the size of the United States, are still not fully understood….
Scientists have known about this extremely rare tree for decades, but did not have any genetic material to describe it. In 2005 a couple of botanists collected seeds from a tree in Jamari National Forest, a ancient tropical forest in the Amazon. They took the seeds and planted them and waited for one to flower….
You may have all heard of the largest Amazon rainforest in the world in South America. If the whole forest is imagined as one country, it will become the seventh largest country in the world. The biodiversity and origin of this forest, which is spread over nine countries, is still not fully known. It seems…
