Before settlers brought their dogs to North America, another lineage of canines accompanied farming communities throughout ...

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, part of the Mesoamerican region, is the arid or semi-arid zone with the richest biodiversity in all of North America. Consisting of three components, Zapotitlán-Cuicatlán, ...

Jaguar habitats in the Mesoamerica region, spanning Mexico and Central America, are under severe threat from deforestation, illegal ranching, monoculture plantations, forest fires, and hunting ...

More than 4,000 tree species are found only in Mexico and Central America, or Mesoamerica. Research published in Plants, ...

In Mesoamerica, the vast historical region spanning from Mexico to Costa Rica, civilizations flourished well before Columbus “discovered” them, and many of these people played a sport that ...

The 24 cities in the western half of Mesoamerica and were founded between 1000 and 300 BCE, centuries before Spanish colonization dramatically changed the region in the 16th century.

The skeleton of a spider monkey ritually sacrificed 1,700 years ago offers a window into the complex geopolitics of the Mesoamerican region at the time. A new analysis, published Monday in the ...

Compared to other Mesoamerican regions, the Huasteca has been neglected for a variety of reasons. In the 19th and 20th centuries, ...