This 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Hainsworth shows Hainsworth on the right and a guide on the left holding a boa constrictor in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, about 100 miles from Manaus. Amazon guides ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...

Many local dishes are offered in the buffet at the floating restaurant on Lake Janauari near Manaus, Brazil. (Mimi Whitefield/Miami Herald/MCT) MCT MANAUS, Brazil — It's that time in the late ...

MANAUS, Brazil — It’s that special time in the late afternoon when the light turns golden and life seems to move at the pace of a bygone era in the square that anchors this Amazon city’s opera house.

MANAUS, Brazil — The Amazon guide raised his hand in the steaming forest and looked at me at the end of a line of six hikers. “Do you want a machete, Jeremy?” said the guide, Shane Zammette. “Jaguars ...

The Amazon guide raised his hand in the steaming forest and looked at me at the end of a line of six hikers. "Do you want a machete, Jeremy?" Shane Zammette asked. "Jaguars always attack from the rear ...