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

By Shanna Hanbury A massive oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple ...

After years of research, experts have produced data that demonstrate unusual social nesting among hummingbirds.

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

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 ...

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

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

Recent research by Bowling Green State University scientists has sent shockwaves through the bird-watching world after ...

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He has now set another world first after making it to the top of the 6961 metre Mount Aconcagua, in the Andes mountain range in the Mendoza region of Argentina on Saturday. Mr Budha Magar, who is ...

A mountain resembling the head of a puppy has become a tourist destination along an ancient Chinese river. The mountain, dubbed "puppy mountain", sits in the city of Yichang in central China's ...