Researchers ventured into the Andes Mountains in northwestern Venezuela on two wildlife surveys in 2015 and 2016, according to a study published March 1 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa.

So far, Quihua’s dwarf geckos have only been found in two locations in the Andes Mountains of Barinas state, the study said. Barinas is in northwestern Venezuela, near the Venezuela-Colombia ...

On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have twisted branches that look like something out of a fairy tale.

They reached Venezuela 45 days later, making landfall at Choroni, a stunning tropical beach west of Caracas. A trek into the Andes and years of hard labor created a settlement that has retained ...

A combination of images, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows the snow deficit affecting the Andes mountain range in South America. Pictures taken July 27, 2020 and July ...

How did the Andes -- the world's longest mountain range -- reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method may be able to answer. With unprecedented ...