Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born ...

LAKE ANDES, S.D. — Just outside Lake Andes, a steel grain bin once used to store corn and soybeans has been converted into a ...

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of ...

Tracing the potato’s deep ancestry, researchers have revealed a surprising origin story: modern potatoes emerged from natural ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, according to new research.

Heavy but wet: Nevados de Chillán grabs 14–20″ Wednesday night plus another 5–8″ Thursday day for storm totals of 19–28″ (SLR ...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” The paper describing the hybridisation event has been published in the journal Cell. Domestic potatoes are incredibly diverse, but it ...

After diving into the poles, it’s time to shift our focus to two of the world’s most iconic mountain ranges,the Andes and the Himalayas. As someone who’s spent much of my life near the towering peaks ...

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic results, like priceless artifacts, treasure-filled tombs, or groundbreaking ...

Fewer than six individuals of the new rare species have been found over the last 16 years despite targeted efforts to ...

Dani Arnold, Alexander Huber, and Simon Gietl have opened a difficult, route in the Peruvian Andes that just may be the most ...

A bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured.