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For 50 years, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has been preserving animals' genetic material in its Frozen Zoo, and ...
Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear ...
In a nutshell Scientists discovered three new species of Pristimantis frogs in Peru’s Cordillera de Huancabamba, a remote and ...
In Peru, scientists discover new species with Indigenous help : Short Wave What happens when a team of scientists and local Awajún guides go on a 38-day trip into the Alto Mayo region of Peru?
High in northern Peru, three frogs no bigger than a thumbprint have stepped out of anonymity and into the scientific ...
Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species ...
In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, the ground dropped out underneath its hairy paws, and it fell into a ...
Darkness stretched across the mountains of northern Peru, coaxing a golden-eyed creature out of its hiding place. It perched ...
The nest, discovered in the Peruvian Andes, is only the fourth ever recorded in Peru, according to researchers.
Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a “blob-headed fish” and a type of semi-aquatic mouse.. The survey was conducted by ...
It was a veritable lost world. A scientific expedition to Peru has yielded a treasure trove of 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse, a “blob-headed” fish, and other zoological oddities.