An international team of scientists has found that the upper Amazon region gave birth to the domesticated Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate...
A new species of hummingbird, called the blue-throated hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus), has been discovered in the southwestern Andes of Ecuador by...
An international team of researchers has discovered five new species of snail-eaters (tribe Dipsadini) living in the forests of Ecuador and Peru.
The five...
Two new species of dog-faced bats have been discovered in the tropical forests of Central and South America. Both new species are described in the March...
A team of entomologists from the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada, and the University of Lincoln’s Joseph Banks Laboratories, UK, has discovered...
Two bird species that look the same, but have songs so different they can’t recognize each other, should be considered distinct species, according to...
Herpetologists are claiming they have discovered a new species of frog living in the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador.
The Yaku glassfrog (Hyalinobatrachium...
Three new species of the ant genus Sericomyrmex have been discovered in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Sericomyrmex radioheadi, worker....
A species of frog that is completely new to science has been discovered in the cloud forests of Ecuador.
The Ecuadorian rainfrog (Pristimantis ecuadorensis),...
Brazilian taxonomists have discovered and described three new species of the ‘bird-eating’ tarantula genus Avicularia from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
Avicularia...
An international team of herpetologists, led by Dr R. Alexander Pyron of the George Washington University, has described a new species of fishing snake...
An international team of researchers has described three new species of the genus Enyalioides from the tropical Andes in Ecuador and northern Peru.
The...
Case Western Reserve University PhD student Katherine Krynak, naturalist Tim Krynak of Cleveland Metroparks’ Natural Resources Division, and their colleagues...
A group of entomologists headed by Dr Fernando Montealegre-Z from the University of Lincoln, UK, reported the discovery of a new genus and three species...
Scientists have described a spectacular new species of shade lizard from the cloudforests of northwestern Ecuador.
Alopoglossus viridiceps, male, about...
Entomologists have discovered 24 new species of wasps that mummify caterpillars, several were named after famous people including Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart,...
U.S. biologists led by Dr Lee Dyer from the University of Nevada Reno have described a new plant species from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador.
Left: Piper...
Biologists from the United States, Ecuador and Panama have described a new species of carnivore from the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia, and named...
Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a new scorpion species from the extraordinarily biodiversity rich region of the...
Researchers from Auburn University have discovered a new remarkable species of suckermouth armoured catfish in southern Ecuador.
Dorsal view of Cordylancistrus...
