Genetics and archaeology yield clues as to when humans first arrived on the continent and how these early settlers lived.

Genetic evidence points to individuals from South America having possibly floated on a raft to Polynesian islands about 500 years before Europeans navigated there.

The Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden is still assessing the damage from a June 15 fire.

The company behind a now-discredited study on hydroxychloroquine also posted a report that has been cited by Latin American governments recommending ivermectin as a possible coronavirus treatment. Clinicians there say the effects have been extremely damaging.

An extinct rodent relative of the capybara appears to have had a smaller brain-to-body ratio than similar species.

As the afternoon breezes blow harder in the Atacama Desert—a place so desolate it’s used as a model of Mars—more microbes move into its driest regions.

Nine months after a fire destroyed priceless collections, scientists are working restore the archives and keep their research afloat.

Genetic information from dozens of individuals living 700 to 10,000 years ago reveals connections between Clovis and Native Americans and South Americans.

Unlike other populations living at high altitude, Andeans didn’t rely on hypoxia-related genes.