More than a dozen people are missing in Venezuela after failing to return from a spiritual retreat in the Andes mountains, authorities said. Between 16 and 20 people, including a newborn baby and ...

The Andes Mountains stretch about 4,500 miles along the western coast of South America. ... The mountain range spans seven countries — Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, ...

Venezuela's last glacier is about to disappear. The Humboldt Glacier in the Andes has been melting rapidly and will be gone before scientists even got a chance to study it fully.

The Andes mountains span over 4,300 miles along South America's western edge, traversing seven countries from Venezuela to Chile. Famous for its towering peaks like Aconcagua and ancient ruins such as ...

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 ...

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.

The Andes mountain range is the longest in the world and has some of the fastest-disappearing ice packs. Venezuela was the first country to lose its last glacier this past May.

The Andes are often described as a reptile-like backbone that cut over 5,000 miles through seven South American countries — Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

The foothills of the Andes Mountains near the southern coast of Peru were captured by the Kompsat-2 satellite, as seen in this cool space wallpaper. The Andes stretch from Venezuela down South ...

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.