It was a simple stroke of serendipity that led to the discovery in Mexico of the earliest underground ochre mine in the New World, which a new journal article describes as a vast prehistoric industrial complex as much as 12 millennia old, where Paleonindians prospected for the valuable red iron-rich mineral that is a major factor in human evolution.

A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel.

Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization - a colossal rectangular elevated platform built between 1,000 and 800 BC in Mexico's Tabasco state.

The discovery of 800 bones could be the first evidence that humans hunted mammoths using traps.

A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower near the Texas-Mexico border has become home to some 300 vultures, which have coated the structure’s entire surface, both inside and out, as well as the ground below, in “droppings mixed with urine,” according to a request for information the agency issued to vendors this week.

Raúl Hernández's body was discovered days after the remains of Homero Gómez were found in a well.

A nearly 10,000-year-old skeleton discovered in a submerged Mexican cave provides more clues to how and when people settled the Americas.

These developments' rigorous geometries conceal a lack of human amenities.

Relatives and co-workers live in fear after two monarch butterfly activists were found dead in Mexico.

In the long-dry Colorado River Delta in Mexico, environmental groups are using small amounts of water to restore wetlands and forests one area at a time.

The 3000-year-old site of Aguada Fénix is the oldest and largest Mayan monument to be discovered and dates from a time before the society had a powerful ruling class

The salad mix blamed for a cyclospora outbreak in Iowa and Nebraska came from Taylor Farms in Mexico, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday.

A mass grave discovered near Mexico City held the bodies of at least five teenagers who had been kidnapped three months ago.

After being ignored by a company owned by the world's richest man Carlos Slim, a tiny Mexican village has developed its own mobile network with international connections. The local service costs 15...

The roles of gender and stigma in the epidemic in the Mexican state of Chiapas

Manuel, a Category 1 hurricane, made landfall Thursday in the northern part of the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured at a show in Mexico after a modified pick-up known as a monster truck crashed into spectators.

Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars. Here's how the whole operation works.

A gunman in a clown suit has shot dead the oldest brother of one of Mexico's most notorious drug trafficking families at a children's party in a beach resort town. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, the former head of his family's Tijuana Cartel, was killed at the gathering at a hotel in Cabo San Lucas in northwest Mexico.

A 20-year-old man in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has admitted to killing 45 people, and is being investigated A 20-year-old man in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has admitted to killing 45 people, and is being investigated for 34 more, officials said on Thursday.