You may have seen lions, elephants and snakes in the zoo but if you wanted to see these incredible animals in their natural habitat you’d need to visit a tropical grassland, or a savanna.

This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous ...

the vast tropical savanna to the east. For now, the Pantanal is relatively intact, sustaining more than 270 communities—1.5 million people—in addition to its flora and fauna, and helping to stabilize ...

By Shanna Hanbury A new species of parrot snake lay undetected for nearly nine years in a scientific collection in Brazil. It ...

By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace ... enough to survive in tougher environments. Tropical rainforests appeared to be the toughest ...

Researchers suspect the species may be endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado, a shrinking tropical savanna that, despite its destruction, remains one of the most biodiverse biomes on Earth. Unlike Brazil ...