Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from ...

MCCAMMON: In Peru, a research expedition traveled over mountains and through thick forests, going further than any team of scientists. GERMAN CHAVEZ: It's an area where very few scientific expeditions ...

In the shadow of Peru’s Andes Mountains, scientists have uncovered a previously unknown creature with striking red eyes and long fingers. The discovery was made in the remote Yanachaga-Chemillén ...

When Alison Davis Rabosky, Ph.D., and her team started swabbing frogs to look for evidence of a devastating disease, they didn’t expect to find much. They were wrong. In the lowlands of the Peruvian ...

Biologists have documented, for the first time, the widespread presence of the notorious chytrid fungus in 80 species of frogs from lowland rain forest sites in the Peruvian Amazon. University of ...

In Lima's Mercado de las Brujas, or witches market, Peruvians gather to dicker for talismans and ancient medicines. Giant slugs larger than a water bottle sweat sticky slime. Dried llama fetuses hang ...

Carmen Gonzalez plucks one of the 50 frogs from the aquarium at her bus stop restaurant, bangs it against tiles to kill it and then makes two incisions along its belly and peels off the skin as if ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Frogs from Peru's Lake Titicaca are the main ingredient in a juice blend that some Andean cultures believe has the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive ...

Peru's capital, Lima, has a witches market that boasts a smorgasbord of charms and salves that hawkers promise will cure any ailment. In Lima's Mercado de las Brujas, or witches market, Peruvians ...