Whether a new subspecies, a species, or just a new population, these coastal chinchillas act in ways scientists have never seen before. By James Hall/Hakai Magazine Published May 24, 2023 9:00 PM EDT ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. In 2020, on a rocky hillside overlooking the vast swell of the Pacific Ocean, near the Chilean port city of Antofagasta, a local man walking ...

Ed Stoddard is a Johannesburg-based journalist with a focus on resource industries, wildlife, economics, and the environment in Africa. A Reuters correspondent for 24 years, he is now a regular ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Last August, high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, the South African mining group Gold Fields launched an operation to relocate some 25 endangered ...

* Chinchillas are large rodents native to the Andes mountains in Chile. * They are known as the softest animals in the world, with 5,200 hairs per follicle. As a result, they are often bred for their ...