The Great Blue Heron can be seen with its piercing yellow eyes casually holding the gasping rodent in its long yellow bill.

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

Ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, here are five key facts about Ecuador, previously among South America's most ...