At Parque Barigui, a sprawling urban park in the Brazilian city of Curitiba, you can ride bikes, enjoy the running tracks, or even rent a giant swan-shaped paddle boat for a spin around the lake. You ...

A woman in Brazil looked out her window one June night and found a parade of at least 10 capybaras A woman in Brazil discovered a night-time display of odd animal behavior right outside her window. On ...

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro — Let’s put this story into rewind mode and see what you might have missed, or forgotten, or might not have known you cared about, or might have purposely avoided just so ...

A capybara grazes as a yellow bird perches on its back — a common sight in Brazilian ecosystems, now increasingly visible in urban areas. (Guilherme Willrich via Courthouse News) RIO DE JANEIRO (CN) — ...

There are some surprises that you really can never really anticipate. But we have to imagine that one woman in Brasilia, Brazil was so excited when she woke up in the middle of the night and found a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Soccer fans will choose the name of the mascot of the Copa America in Brazil this year. The organization of the tournament published two name choices for its capybara mascot — ...

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now ...