Three new species of the ant genus Sericomyrmex have been discovered in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Sericomyrmex radioheadi, worker....
Brazilian taxonomists have discovered and described three new species of the ‘bird-eating’ tarantula genus Avicularia from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
Avicularia...
Fossilized teeth from a newly identified species of extinct shark that lived 20 million years ago (early Miocene) were found in the mid-latitudinal zones...
For the first time, researchers have identified a multicomponent RNA virus – one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles,...
A new species of the genus Pristimantis (rain frogs) has been discovered in southeastern Peru by an international team of scientists.
Pristimantis pluvialis,...
A team of scientists from Japan has discovered a completely new geoglyph in the Nazca Desert, southern Peru.
The 98-foot (30 m) long mythical animal in...
Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...
NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), an airborne radar developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, proved...
Spiders of the genus Selenops (Araneae: Selenopidae) have a unique ability to control their gliding fall, as if they were skydivers, according to a team...
A new fleshbelly frog species has been discovered by an international team of scientists from Peru and the United States.
Noblella madreselva shows a large...
An international team of researchers has described three new species of the genus Enyalioides from the tropical Andes in Ecuador and northern Peru.
The...
An international team of paleontologists has described three new species of caimans that lived in the swampy waters of what is now northeastern Peru during...
The chicks of an Amazonian bird called the Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) mimic toxic, hairy caterpillars of the flannel moths both in appearance...
Three new extinct monkeys that lived in what is now Peru approximately 36 million years ago have been discovered by a team of paleontologists led by Dr...
A group of scientists led by Dr Paolo Gabrielli of Ohio State University has discovered evidence of air pollution within the Andean ice that predates the...
Biologists from the United States and Peru have described a colorful new species of water frog from the Peruvian Andes.
The water frog Telmatobius ventriflavum....
Scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society have released their favorite camera-trap pictures of 2014. They use camera traps as a non-invasive tool...
Archaeologists from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Peru, have discovered two ancient settlements in the Pucuncho Basin in the southern Peruvian...
Primate ecologist Dr Laura Marsh of the Global Conservation Institute in Santa Fe, NM, has described five new species of the genus Pithecia (saki monkeys)...
Peruvian and European paleontologists have described a new fossil species of dolphin that lived in what is now Peru during the Miocene period, about 16...
