This is the moment Ecuador’s environment minister flies over the Wolf Volcano eruption in the Galapagos Islands to witness the river of lava weaving its way towards the coast. The…
This is the moment lava flows across Isabela Island in the Galapagos after seven years of relative calm. The eruption took place at Wolf Volcano, also known as Mount Whiton,…
Scientists have used ostrich egg shell beads to map a 50,000-year-old social network - the world's oldest, they claim - spanning Africa after over a decade of gathering data. The…
Mexican scientists have discovered 17 burial sites containing the remains of citizens who died during a pandemic in the 19th century. One leading scientist said: “It is striking that this…
Boffins in China have unearthed an extremely rare giant panda fossil dating back over 100,000 years. Researchers from the Guizhou Institute of Mountain Resources of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences…
Gravediggers preparing the ground for a new cemetery in Mexico were shocked to discover the plots were already in use as they contained the 10,000-year-old remains of a mammoth. The…
Experts have found Mayan pots that were placed under stalactites to collect water in a cave almost a thousand years ago and were still in the cave today. One of…
A team of scientists in Austria and Germany has uncovered the oldest known remains of a mysterious species of archaic humans called the Denisovans dating back 200,000 years in a…
Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed an altar built by native Mexicans and complete with a pot containing human remains that was part of a ritual to mark their fading world…
Microplastics have been found for the first time in fish from the Peruvian Amazon. The announcement was made by the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, which detailed an investigation that…