The new large millipede species was discovered in Colombia’s department of Boyacá, in the foothills of the Andes, about 1,600 feet above sea level, according to a study. Ricky Beron via Unsplash ...

Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born. And now new research shows this pivotal event—and the mashed, baked and ...

Quinn Emanuel has taken its lawyers to an extravagant hiking excursion nearly every year since 1993. This year, 250 lawyers took to the Andes Mountains in Peru for an 18-mile trek. The firm says the ...

A recent unexpected frost graced high-altitude peaks in Chile, dusting the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope with a delicate layer of snow. The 13.4 foot (4.1 meter) telescope has been ...

The Andean cat is an endangered and elusive wildcat species found in the high Andes Mountain regions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. The species is exceedingly rare across its entire range and ...