Known as Peñico, the city is now open to tourists. It was once a vibrant urban center that connected coastal, mountain and ...

In the desert of Saudi Arabia, a “cryptic” creature with a “window” in its eyelid climbed along a pile of rocks. Its ...

Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a ...

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 ...

Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear ...

Scientists found a “thick”-lipped creature in a “swiftly flowing” river of Switzerland and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Calegari, Freyhof, Waldock, Wegscheider, Josi, Rüber and ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation ...

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

The Nazca lived between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800 in what scientists call a tropical desert. Yet just offshore, the sea teemed ...

This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was collected in Peru in the late 19th century. The multicolored ceramic vessel is ...