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These Colombian mummies were Buried With death Masks Fused to their Faces. Now, Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Their Faces After 500 years

For centuries, four mummified individuals from the Colombian Andes lay in museums, their faces sealed under ornate masks. And I mean sealed shut. Now, thanks to cutting-edge digital reconstruction, ...
Kansas City Star

‘Striking’ new species with ‘sapphire blue’ wings discovered in Colombian Andes

The new butterfly species is very similar to a known species that lives over 800 miles away, posing a mystery about how the two ended up so far apart. Photo by P. Boyer In the high elevations of the ...
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High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes are rich in carbon from past fires

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. Scientists investigated the long-term ...
The State

Park ranger spots unfamiliar creature — and rediscovers species after 20 years

In the Andes of Colombia, a small creature was rediscovered for the first time in 20 years. Raul Andres Galvis-Cordoba and Juan Manuel Carvajalino-Fernández (2025) Check List In the streams and rivers ...
Charlotte Observer

Park ranger spots unfamiliar creature — and rediscovers species after 20 years

In the streams and rivers of the Colombian Andes, there once was a small, pitch-black creature. Atelopus marinkellei, a harlequin toad, was discovered in the 1970s and quickly fell under “one of the ...