A giant new species of freshwater dolphin, dating back approximately between 24 and 16 million year, was recently discovered by a team of paleontologists in the Peruvian Amazon. The team was from the ...

Newly discovered rock art in the Colombian Amazon depicts the rainforest’s early inhabitants living with giant Ice Age creatures. The drawings, which were made between 12,600 and 11,800 years ago, ...

A drought in the Amazon has revealed prehistoric carvings of faces that show a variety of expressions, from smiling to scowling, just like today's emojis. The faces, seen on several rocks in Manaus, ...

The rock art is in a region of Colombia that was off-limits to researchers for decades due to political instability. Reading time 2 minutes Recently discovered prehistoric wall drawings illustrate a ...

Scientists have discovered one of the world's largest prehistoric rock art collections in the Amazon rain forest. Some call it "the Sistine Chapel of the ancients," with tens of thousands of paintings ...

In a remarkable discovery, archaeologists have found one of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art in the Amazonian rainforest. Tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans, ...