P. rex was collected from southern Colombia. The research team includes Mattox, Astrid Acosta-Santos, Juan D. Bogotá-Gregory, Edwin Agudelo and Flávio C. T. Lima. Irene Wright is a McClatchy ...

Longnose Pacific stingrays are considered “large-sized,” reaching over 6 feet long and 4 feet across and weighing over 55 ...

In a darkened forest of central Colombia, a 2-foot-long mammal climbed a tree and paused to rest its “completely spiny” body.

Published Feb. 18 | Read More | Off Colombia’s coast ... Published Feb. 20 | Read More | McClatchy News continues to follow the discovery of the most unusual and intriguing new species.

Scientist Héctor Ramírez-Chaves and his colleagues set out to study the mammals and rodents of Colombia, knowing the country’s wildlife had been “little studied,” he told McClatchy News ...

Researchers in the Amazon of Colombia made a mysterious discovery ... of the round skin flap,” study author George Mattox told McClatchy News in an email, “which we don’t have the slightest ...