Long before the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which lies northeast of Mexico City, the area was home to the former Lake Xaltocan and inhabited by a rich ecosystem of ...

Xin Xin is the world’s only giant panda not owned by China and the last of her kind in Mexico. Born at Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo on July 1, 1990, she has reached 35 years of age — equivalent to ...

In the rolling countryside of the northern Yucatán, a team of researchers has brought to light the story of Hunacti—a short-lived 16th-century mission town whose stone streets and Spanish-style church ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

Efforts to restore the red-legged frog to Southern California, where it had all but disappeared, seemed doomed when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and restrictions were put in place at the U.S.

New Mexico holds treasures that many travelers overlook while rushing to Santa Fe or Albuquerque. Beyond the famous ...

The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Mr. Everything is Matt Dahlseid, a talented, soft-spoken newsroom star who leads our multimedia ...

For now, the Nazca “alien mummies” remain suspended between myth and science. They could be the remains of individuals with extreme genetic anomalies, or perhaps evidence of a forgotten human lineage.

Has the mystery of several "1,000-year-old alien corpses" that supposedly contain DNA that is "not from any known species" finally been solved? The "alien ...

The mummified remains, notable for having only three fingers and three toes, were discovered in a cave in Peru in 2015 and ...

In the heart of Peru, a grave digger's discovery sparked a whirlwind of theories and debates. Mummified bodies with three ...

Theories range from extraterrestrial origins to an undiscovered human species, though skeptics call it a hoax. The bizarre ...