Mummified dogs found in Peru
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Archaeologists in Peru uncover the mummified remains of dogs buried with blankets alongside their human masters.
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Scientists exploring the western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have found seeds of domesticated squash from almost 10,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the human skeleton of what they conclude is the earliest known gunshot victim in the New World.
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Scientists have discovered that dogs can sniff out cancer and even detect unconfirmed cases, resolving several years of anecdote and speculation by doctors on the question.
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By Daniel Howden  Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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By Eduardo Orozco LIMA, Peru  - A Peruvian journalist seized by mobof armed villagers in a remote Andean jungle, was released onThursday four days after he was abducted, beaten and tied to apost for supporting a copper mining project, police said.
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LIMA, Peru - After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.
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A husband-wife fossil-hunting team in Spain has excavated the skeleton of a 13 million-year-old creature they believe is close to the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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CALGARY, Alberta - A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2 -- Teams of investigators and archaeological specialists searched the site of a former military base in western Mexico on Saturday for remains of victims of Mexico's "dirty war."
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Person-sized bird with fearsome spear for a beak roamed Peru 36 million years ago.
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Researchers who gleaned DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic, but for now they can&#39;t be sure.
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Dogs have earned a new claim to the title of man&#39;s best friend following the discovery by scientists that they can sniff out cancer and even detect unconfirmed cases.
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LIMA, Peru  - Even in ancient Peru, it seems dogs were a man's best friend.
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The US hands over more than 400 Incan and pre-Columbian artefacts to the government of Peru.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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The team examined samples from four animal mummiesâtwo hawks, a cat, and an ibisâdating from 818 BC to 343 BC The mummies are housed in the collection of the Liverpool Museum in Liverpool, England.