Researchers trekking through a rugged Peruvian river basin found a never-before-seen species named Marmosa chachapoya.

In 2018, a research expedition in Peru’s Río Abiseo National Park stumbled upon an animal no scientist had recorded before.

Occurred on September 13, 2025 / Ollantaytambo, Peru Info from Licensor: "The video was recorded in the city of Ollantaytambo, Peru. A very clever dog entered the area where the llamas are kept, and ...

On a damp, mist-laced slope of the eastern Andes, a small creature with reddish-brown fur and a black facial mask peeked from the edge of a pitfall trap. It was August 16, 2018, and biologist Silvia ...

As nighttime settled over the rainforest of northeastern Peru, a “dwarf”-like mammal moved through the tree branches and began climbing across an artificial bridge. Its passage set off a nearby trail ...

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, ...

Chimps' ability to metabolize fermented fruit could explain our own predilection for alcohol. Chimpanzees could be consuming ...

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, ...

Into this wilderness trekked Silvia Pavan, a Brazilian biologist and professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. She was chasing a ...

The ancient Chachapoya people lived in northern Peru from about A.D. 800 until the arrival of the ... In addition to the new mouse opossum species, Pavan and her team discovered several other animals ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in ...

As the story goes, Grigori Rasputin’s assassins poisoned the “Mad Monk,” shot him at close range, beat him and threw him into an icy river. Supposedly, his hand reached out from the depths to grasp a ...