In Brazil, where about 16 wild animals become roadkill every second, a computer scientist has come up with a futuristic solution to this everyday problem: using AI to alert drivers to their presence.

A yellow-and-brown boa constrictor wraps itself around David de Oliveira Gomes's neck like a scarf, but the 15-year-old Brazilian with autism is fascinated, not afraid. For him, this is therapy. "His ...

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

Whenever Wagner Fischer drives, he notices the roadkill. As a graduate student in the 1990s, Fischer, now a biologist with the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, traveled through Brazil’s ...

SAO PAULO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The Brazilian animal feed industry will produce slightly less than expected in 2025 after a case of bird flu in the country affected chicken exports and curtailed demand ...

Helicopter footage from Canoas shows a horse on a rooftop after flooding hit the region. Around 20 dogs got trapped in a building in Porto Alegre, prompting volunteer rescuers to join to save them on ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil on Monday declared a state of animal health emergency for 180 days in response to the country's first ever detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in wild ...

A two-week research cruise off the coast of Brazil has returned with 31 animals that appear to be species never formally described by science, most of them transparent or gelatinous creatures pulled ...

Brazilian meat will be banned in the EU following a unanimous vote by experts from EU member states. The reason for the ban? Drugs used by Brazilian producers to make animals bigger and therefore more ...