Peruvian officials recently caught an unlikely suspect involved in a string of home burglaries: an escaped pet monkey. The ...

A pet monkey escaped from a home in southern Peru, broke into nearby residences, and wreaked havoc until rescuers arrived, ...

Peru's National Forestry and Wildlife Service ... leading them to suspect the small primate was an escaped pet. Marks along the animal's waist were consistent with having been tied with a rope ...

(CNN)-- Chilean inspectors stumbled upon hundreds of exotic animals from Peru destined for illegal trade while conducting what they thought was going to be a routine inspection of a fishing boat ...

Peru’s northwest shoreline above Chiclayo is beautifully ... but little notice was generated. In February and March, more animals were found by the hundreds, and as many as a thousand in one report.

Species endangered by this fearsome marine animal that remained hidden in the ... that the first assessments of the skeletal remains of Peru's so-called 'sea monster', an ancient whale considered ...

researchers traveling through the Ayacucho region of Peru discovered a small amphibian in the mountain coffee groves. About an inch and a half long, the animal was a salamander with an oddly ...

Scientists discovered new fish species. These include a blob-headed catfish, a tiny pipehorse, and three pacu species.

Animal dung in the Andes Mountains in Peru is helping to transform soil recently uncovered by melting glaciers, according to ...