Instead, parts of the Andes look like they sprung from sudden upward pulses in the crust throughout the Cenozoic era — Earth's current geological period, which began roughly 66 million years ago.

There's so much to do and see in Argentina. Here, Travel + Leisure A-List advisor Carola Fresno shares what sites to see, ...

Scientists have traced the potato's origin back nine million years, revealing it arose from a chance hybridization between a ...

Detrital isotopic record of a retreating accretionary orogen: An example from the Patagonian Andes. Geology, 2024; DOI: 10.1130/G51918.1 Ian W. D. Dalziel, Maarten J. de Wit, Keith F. Palmer.

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, warmer regions, new research shows.

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

The slopes of the Andes are home to the world's largest centers of biodiversity: vicuñas, llamas, spectacled bears, and Andean foxes can be found in the longest mountain range on earth—spanning ...