Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

Paleontologists in Chile have announced that they’ve discovered a new species of giant dinosaur. The name of the reptile is a mouthful — it’s called “Arackar licanantay.” The name means "Atacamian ...

The rare floral bloom is due to an unusual amount of rainfall in Chile. — -- The Atacama Desert in Chile, also known as the "driest place on Earth," has been transformed into a lush floral ...

The normally barren landscape of the Atacama region, the oldest continuously arid place in the world has been transformed this year, a gift from El Nino. Even though the cyclical warming of the El ...

When my plane touches down at the Desierto de Atacama Airport in northern Chile, it feels as if I’ve been launched out of orbit to some Martian landscape. Aside from the small terminal, there isn’t ...

When nature devastates, it often also brings life. Historic rainfall in Chile this year killed 28 people and left thousands homeless, the news agency EFE reported. In Antofagasta, Chile, it rained 0.9 ...

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the area of an unusual winter bloom on Atacama desert prior to the spring phenomenon known as 'Desierto Florido' (Bloomed desert), which fills the driest desert in the world ...

We can thank El Niño for the beautiful display in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Looking at pictures of Chile’s Atacama Desert right now, you would never know it’s one of the driest places on the planet.

This study reports a new species of Eryngium (Apiaceae, Saniculoideae) from the desert scrubs, in the south of the III Atacama Region, Chile. This new species is singular within the genus by its ...

A palaeontologist works at the place where pterosaur fossils were found at 'Tormento' hill in the Atacama desert at Atacama region, Chile, in this undated handout photo provided by the Universidad de ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --The desert bloom phenomenon is expected to return in the third week of September in Chile's Llanos de Challe National Park and surrounding areas, reaching its peak in October after ...

Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...