Hiking through the mountains of Ecuador, scientists scanned their surroundings, their attention focused on one task. Peering into a “steep creek,” they spotted several creatures — and discovered two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mountains of Ecuador lurked a scaly creature with a white “collar” around its neck. For years, the distinctive animal had ...

Deep within the unexplored depths of Ecuador’s Andes mountains, a tiny creature made her home in the leaf litter covering the floor of a volcano slope. Then she was nabbed by researchers. The small, ...

Scientists found a “cryptic” animal with a “squared snout” west of the Andes mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View Image ...

Scientists found a “cryptic” creature with “blue” bones in a mountain ravine in Ecuador and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View May ...

In the mountains of Ecuador lurked an eight-eyed creature with a “bad temperament.” When scientists encountered the hairy animal, they discovered its bristly personality — and a new species.

Clouded oncilla were among seven species with “unusual” coloring spotted in the Andes of Ecuador. Viteri-Basso E, Reyes Puig J, Reyes-Puig C, Ríos-Alvear G (2024) Biodiversity Data Journal In the ...

A groundbreaking discovery of 112-million-year-old insects preserved in amber from Ecuador offers a rare glimpse into Gondwana’s Cretaceous ecosystem. Found in the Hollín Formation, these ...

The two new species of rainfrogs were found near volcanoes in Ecuador, according to scientists. Juan P. Reyes-Puig and Zane Libke via ZooKeys Deep within the unexplored depths of Ecuador’s Andes ...

In the mountain forests of the Andes, some animals rarely make an appearance. The “elusive” creatures may be small in numbers or might limit their movements to the cover of night. In Ecuador, ...