As night fell across a mountain ravine in Ecuador, a “cryptic” creature with “blue” bones emerged from its hiding spot and ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Deep in the mountains, Harriet Compston finds Ecuadorian communities opening their doors to travellers and sharing their ...

A man who is attempting to become the first person in history to walk the entirety of the Andes through its seven nations has ...

That pretty well describes her multi-faceted work in the smallest country in the rugged Andes Mountain highlands. Ecuador is about the size of the U.S. state of Nevada. Quito, the modern capital city, ...

Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

A massive oil spill in Ecuador, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife ...

Hummingbirds are so fiercely territorial that fights between them are sometimes fatal. But one unusual species is living ...

They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government.

Discover the 13 countries that lie on the Equator, spanning three continents and major oceans. Learn about their climate, geography, and unique equatorial characteristics.