Police searching for three missing women at a remote Mexican ranch were astonished when they found an endangered Bengal tigress in an enclosure. The incident took place near the city of Rioverde, San Luis Potosi state on 11th November. The Mexican State Coordination of Civil Protection (CEPC) said that the…
The woman who inspired the hit animated movie 'Coco' has died in her Mexican hometown aged 109. Maria Salud Ramirez Caballero died in Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacan State, western Mexico on Sunday, 16th October, reported local media. Maria - who had turned 109 in September - is said…
This is the sight that has got traditional believers quaking in their boots over fears that a huge seismic shock could be coming. A two-metre-long deep sea oarfish (Regalecus glense) caught in the shallows off the Mexican coast wriggles through its last seconds of life in the back of a…
Experts tracking a collection of more than 2,000 ancient Mexican treasures have been helped by five-cent coins and a hotel ashtray stashed with them. Officials from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) used the clues to work out when the artefacts left the country, it is reported.…
Giant alligators have been released into the Rio Grande to deter illegal migrants from crossing the border river to the US, reports Mexican media. The scare emerged after US Border Patrol agents photographed what looks like an enormous 'gator swimming near Eagle Pass, Texas, a regular crossing point. Eagle Pass…
The body of an 18-year-old Mexican woman whose image went viral after she was snapped standing by the road shortly before she disappeared two weeks ago has been found in the cistern of an abandoned motel. Debanhi Escobar disappeared on the stretch of road that leads into the Mexican city…
A tiny jaguar cub sealed in a box by suspected wildlife traffickers has been rescued by airport staff. The cute male cub - just three months old - emerged blinking from the dark, cramped wooden box at a Mexican airport after customs officials cracked it open. Police seized a jaguar…
A Mexican couple has been reunited with their teenage son 16 years after he was abducted from hospital as a newborn. Mother Rosalia Lopez and father Yasir Macias have waited the best part of two decades to see their son Salvador again. According to the news site El Informador, Salvador…
A Mexican human rights activist who fought for justice for her murdered daughter has been shot dead at her place of work. The shooting took place in the city of Temixco in the Mexican state of Morelos at around 11.30pm on 28th January. Ana Luisa Garduno Juarez, 51, was killed…
The Mexican authorities have removed 30 bags of human remains from clandestine graves in two vacant plots of land. The human remains were found on two vacant plots of around 50 metres by 15 metres in the neighbourhood of Zalatitan in the city of Tonala in the Mexican state of…