Being able to say, 'Wow, this species still exists; we can extract its venom to kill whoever we want,'" she laughed. Tiwi hopes that future researchers working in Peru will learn from the ...

because the newly-discovered species in Peru has been dubbed the "ugliest" in the world. The blob-headed fish was among 27 new species discovered by researchers on a trip to Alto Mayo, Peru ...

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

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Attracted by bait, sea turtles off the coast of southern Peru often get caught on fishing hooks intended for mahi-mahi.

but they’d just discovered a new species. Researchers visited several sites throughout Peru between 2000 and 2012 in search of snakes and sent their specimens to a museum. Years later ...

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming ...