This discovery, Dulcibella camanchaca, was made in the pitch black nearly 8,000 meters deep — close to the height of Mount Everest — in the South Pacific Ocean’s Atacama trench near Chile.

Although it's less well-known than other areas in South America, it's one of the continent's best wildlife viewing locations.

and they crept too close to animals. Only one fatal puma encounter has occurred in Torres del Paine, Chile’s most visited park, and they want to keep it that way. The park’s cautious approach ...

"Conservationists in Chile and elsewhere see urgency in controlling the impact of free-ranging dogs on wildlife." It found dog owners were not concerned about the issue and many allowed their pets ...

And he added that they are not being used in Chile because “vaccines do not cure infected animals and only slow down the spread of the virus.” There is still no evidence that avian flu is ...

Claudio reyes/AFP The discarded plastic bags are a problem for wildlife In August, Chile became the first country in Latin America to ban stores from handing out free plastic bags to shoppers.

a marine protected area in Chile’s extreme south. At 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) depth, they found a large number of red hydrocorals, which are colonial marine animals that resemble, but are distinct ...

For The Deep episode, we wanted to spend time with these animals in THEIR world – the ... named – the Humboldt current off the coast of Chile. Joe Treddenick, our researcher, went out to ...

Starting their journey in Southern Chile, 53 Darwin frogs endured a 6-hour boat ride, 15-hour drive to Santiago [Chile's capital], and a flight to Heathrow, before being transported to London Zoo.

A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a “living fossil” is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat.