A jaguar was captured on camera trap on an artificial island near the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam. The only way it could have gotten there was a very long swim.

Discover how scientists in Brazil found out that a jaguar had made a record-breaking swim and learn what drove him to do it.

Brazil police officials created a makeshift flotation device to help a shot jaguar struggling to swim, driving the big cat to land, where the animal is recieving veterinary care for its severe injurie ...

Luckily, jaguars are also known to have high levels of ecological plasticity, meaning that they are able to adapt well to changes in their environment. With this newly documented swim, researchers ...

In a remarkable display of strength and adaptability, a jaguar has stunned researchers by swimming to an island in a flooded ...

Biologists in Brazil have documented a jaguar swimming an estimated 2.3 kilometers, or 1.4 miles, across an artificial ...

A 1.3-kilometre swim by a jaguar is the longest ever confirmed, but the cat's motives for making the journey are unclear ...

The new record could help conservationists strategize ways to consider feline movements during construction of hydroelectric ...

A vast expanse of barren white sand dunes enclosing vast freshwater lagoons, Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses is a place of otherworldly splendour, said Michael Snyder in Travel + Leisure. A national park ...

Kaio Almeida, a four-time Olympian and Short-Course World Champion, announced his retirement from swimming this week. The Brazilian will turn 36 this month. He had returned from retirement after the ...

High levels of the drug were found in 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks, according to new, first-of-its-kind research Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...