In 2006, while surveying the high altitude cloudforests of the remote Toisán range of Ecuador’s Chocó- Andes, a pocket-sized bird fluttering along the mist-shrouded ridgeline caught the eye of ...
QUITO, Ecuador — For more than 80 years, this Andean capital has been guarded by a strange array of kitschy castles — brimming with turrets and towers, spires and faux drawbridges, Moorish cupolas and ...
Grupo de Trabajo en Páramos del Ecuador (GTP) is a remarkable self-organized group of páramo experts that have met over the past 13 years in Quito, Ecuador. Páramo is an alpine tundra ecosystem which ...
In the plants and bushes around mountain streams in Ecuador, two new species call into the night. Kazuend via Unsplash In the forested mountains of Ecuador, loud chirps ring out as the sun sets and ...
Scientists have discovered three new species of dragon-esque woodlizards in the Andes of Peru and Ecuador. The new species differ from their closest relatives in scale features, coloration and DNA.
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