Torrent ducks have to survive freezing temperatures on land and extreme heat in the water. Learn all about it on The Americas.

The rarely-seen species with its distinct leaf-shaped nose was recorded in 10 new locations, including the eastern Ecuadorian Andes.

The páramo covers slopes above 10,000 feet in elevation all over the Andes Mountains, and acts like a giant sponge absorbing ...

Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the Andes Mountains ... Hillstar hummingbirds in his native Ecuador were not fighting over nesting ...

Researchers visited several sites in the Andes mountains of eastern Ecuador as part of a yearslong project to document the area’s amphibian diversity. They focused on a group of treefrogs often ...

About 10 years ago, with no fanfare or publicity, Alaska became more known in South America with the creation of Alaska del ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers hung nearly ... in the Chocó biogeographic region of Ecuador and Colombia — a biodiverse region ...