photography White bats chilling out peacefully in their leaf tent Xeni Jardin

Science Scientists discover transparent frog David Pescovitz

amazon Monkeys helped man who mysteriously vanished in the Bolivian Amazon David Pescovitz

Science Brazil's Bolsonaro deploys military to Amazon region Xeni Jardin

futility closet Henry Ford built a Midwestern-style town in the Amazon Futility Closet

crime Florida man convicted of smuggling lizards from Philippines in electronics Xeni Jardin

invention Vehicle outfitted with "shoes" to avoid crushing Christmas Island crabs Rusty Blazenhoff

picks As Amazon burns, Trump wants to log world’s largest intact temperate rainforest in Alaska Xeni Jardin

Science This is one of the world's tallest trees; and this is the arborist who climbed it David Pescovitz

modern ancient primitives The primitive technology guy made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails Mark Frauenfelder

Culture Wildly-popular UK dance party pays homage to Sir David Attenborough Rusty Blazenhoff

NASA Voyagers: David Pescovitz, Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad nominated for Grammy award Rob Beschizza

picks Amazon Alexa turned me into a prepper Jason Weisberger

Audio Watch this beautiful visualization of the sounds of the Amazon rainforest David Pescovitz

Kids Watch a waterfall suck swimmers through a rock into a cave Andrea James

drugs Guy gets super-high on ayahuasca, gets cosmic woodworking instructions Andrea James

music The Sounds of the Junk Yard, a 1964 vinyl record David Pescovitz