Wild Wonders "Atacama Desert, Chile—An Extreme Landscape" Posted: December 14, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025 "Welcome to ZooEarthTv, where we showcase the incredible diversity of life on ...

Whether you love hiking or animals or seeing the best stargazing in the world, the Atacama Desert is an incredible place for travelers. Here we give you the best travel advice for getting the most ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

A new-to-science predator has been identified from the hadal depths of the Atacama Trench, a first for this island-like ecosystem in the Southeast Pacific. Here, scientists had loaded bait traps ...

The Atacama Trench is one of the deepest on Earth, reaching about 26,460 feet (8,065 meters) below sea level. It stretches approximately 3,666 miles (5,900 km) in length, running parallel to the ...

He adds that the Atacama salt flat is a “unique ecosystem” as it’s connected to the eastern, southern and western edges of the desert. For Chocobar, the Indigenous guardian, there’s little ...

A bizarre new predator has been discovered lurking 26,000 feet below the ocean's surface and has been named after its pitch-black home. The new crustacean was discovered deep in the Atacama Trench ...

The Atacama Desert receives rain only a few times a year. The intense sun and harsh conditions make plant and animal life almost nonexistent. That has left the desert virtually untouched, Dr ...

Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1 to 2 centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches) per year due to lithium brine extraction, according to a study by the University of Chile.