tropical rain forest

Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions.

A lion cub at the zoo killed the tropical rain forest mammal, the inspection records showed.

For the aptly named bird dung crab spiders residing in Southeast Asia’s tropical rain forests, such looks and smells are essential to survival in an eat-or-be-eaten world.

New Mexico’s high desert plateaus have also yielded many dinosaur fossils, including various species of tyrannosaurus that roamed the land millions of years ago when it was a tropical rain forest.

But researchers have had no idea how the event changed the tropical rain forests of Africa or, until now, those of South America.