Located along the entire western coast of South America, the Andes mountain range is about 4,500 miles (7,242 kilometers) ... Her work can also be found in Business News Daily and KM World.

Sept, 8, 2013: Uruguayan man Raul Fernando Gomez Circunegui, 58, poses outside the shelter where he was found after disappearing four months ago in the remote Andes Mountains of San Juan Province.

Three new types of frogs were discovered during off-road scientific expeditions in the remote cloud-shrouded peaks of the ...

Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the Andes Mountains, BGSU researchers found a species of hummingbird is living cohesively with its peers.

A species of leaf-eared mouse, called Phyllotis vaccarum, has surprised scientists by making the summits of the Andes mountains its home. The mouse holds the record for the highest living mammal.

In 2022, researchers collected caterpillars off a plant in the arid highlands of the Andes Mountains of Chile, then patiently waited to see what they became. Two months later, adult moths, mostly ...

Eating insects gives these plants a competitive advantage over other plants and helps them thrive in challenging habitats like the tropical high Andes Mountains. [Related: Meet the world’s ...

Geologists demonstrate the reconstruction of the subduction of the Nazca Ocean plate, the remnants of which are currently found down to 1,500 kilometers, or about 900 miles, below the Earth's surface.

The Andes is Earth's longest above-water mountain range. It spans 8900 kilometres along South America's western periphery, is up to 700 kilometres wide, and in some places, climb nearly seven ...

(CNN) — With freezing temperatures of down to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) and vegetation hundreds and sometimes thousands of meters below the mountain tops, the ...