The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Recent research by Bowling Green State University scientists has sent shockwaves through the bird-watching world after ...

At No. 1 is the flight between Mendoza, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, which has an eddy dissipation rate (EDR)—EDR is a ...

As night fell across a mountain ravine in Ecuador, a “cryptic” creature with “blue” bones emerged from its hiding spot and ...

Over thousands of years, evolution has helped the Aymara people of the high plains of Andes mountains adjust to altitudes as high as 14,400 feet (2.75 miles) above sea level. This indigenous ...

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...

Animal dung in the Andes Mountains in Peru is helping to transform soil recently uncovered by melting glaciers, according to ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...

Reforestation day in the Vilcanota mountain range in Peru. Image courtesy of Luis ... Fjeldså was nearing completion of his book Birds of the High Andes, and Aucca, an experienced Indigenous ...