For 130 years, a small Chilean frog vanished from scientific view. Biologists searched. Nature enthusiasts kept their eyes open. But Alsodes vittatus remained stubbornly invisible.

At first sight, orange and off-white shards of rocks surrounded by dust and dirt are all you can see for thousands of desolate kilometres in the Atacama Desert of Chile. This is one of the driest ...

The rediscovery of “one of the rarest and most elusive amphibians” in Chile is quite a tale. Philibert Germain, a scientist studying insects, visited a large estate in southern Chile in December 1893.

Hikers in Chile followed a reconstructed map of an 1893 expedition and found a species not seen since then, a study said. Photo from Correa, Riveros-Riffo and Donoso (2025) A Frenchman with a ...

Sunny with a high of 93 °F (33.9 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 69 °F (20.6 °C ...

Sunny with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 11 mph (6.4 to 17.7 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 4 to 9 mph (6.4 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 61 °F (16.1 °C ...

Fifteen years ago on February 27, a devastating 8.8 magnitude quake struck southern Chile off the coast of Concepcion, shaking the ground for four minutes and unleashing a tsunami that left 550 dead.