A tropical insect has been found to change color from vivid hot pink to green within a fortnight, which scientists believe may mimic the young leaves of rainforest plants. The findings, published this ...

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami-Dade County is home to more than 5,000 species of plants, trees and flowers — and a vision to transform all of South Florida into a garden.

Discover 16 tropical rainforest plants perfect for adding greenery indoors that bring vibrant color improve air quality and create a calming lush environment in your home or office while being easy to ...

The hyper-arid coastal desert of Peru is an unlikely place to find the electric-blue and brilliant scarlet feathers of tropical rainforest parrots. Yet, during a 2005 excavation at the religious ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

Students leapt out of their textbooks and across the hemisphere last winter. After a semester of studying and researching ...

The Rainforest Cafe in Bloomington, Minnesota, delivers a full tropical getaway complete with jungle sounds, exotic wildlife, ...

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida, features a two-acre, open-air tropical rainforest exhibit, the only of its kind in the continental United States.

When the first Polynesians arrived in the Hawaiian Islands centuries ago, there were no coconut palms here. There were no mountain apple, breadfruit, kalo, olena and many other plants we think of as ...

It turns out that the iconic carnivorous pitcher plant, which traps its prey with the help of a slippery film that slides insects into a cup of digestive liquids, is a feat of engineering. And ...

Plants have increasingly become one of the best home decorating options. In fact, they’re often seen in waiting rooms, next to computer screens, and hanging from shelves. This particular plant, ...