It’s not easy living the high life. Take it from the Andean leaf-eared mouse, Earth’s highest-dwelling mammal. To tolerate ...

Once thought to exclusively inhabit its namesake mountain range, the threatened Andean cat -- a house cat-sized feline that resembles a small snow leopard in both appearance and habitat -- also ...

The winners of the seventh Patagonia Photo Contest showcase the region's spectacular scenery and iconic species while shining ...

By dawn, mist clings to the Andean sky over the Chakana Reserve, the air sharp at 5°C. Our four-wheel drive sputters its last breath on a rain-slicked slope at 3,000m – beyond this point, only boots ...

A new species of mouse with a remarkably long tail, dubbed Otavalo’s Andean mouse, has been discovered near a dormant volcano in Ecuador. Named in honor of the local Otavalo culture, the mouse ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop. At nearly 18,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes, wild camelids called vicuñas ...

A nature reserve high in the Andes and far from where people live would seem, on its face, to be a great place for native wildlife. But even those remote spots aren’t free of the influence of human ...

CHACHAPOYAS, PERU — The woman in the market stall fills a glass with a reddish liquid, calling out what’s in the brew: white rum, seven types of tree bark, honey, pollen, a snake's head, the huanarpo ...

Once thought to exclusively inhabit its namesake mountain range, the threatened Andean cat—a house cat-sized feline that resembles a small snow leopard in both appearance and habitat—also frequents ...