Here are four penguin species that go to show just how adaptable these remarkable birds are. The penguins are able to survive in the Atacama Desert thanks to the Humboldt current, as it cools ...

Only mites and a few reptiles, birds and mammals have been seen. Herbaceous plants — like those flowering in the Atacama Desert — have a self-pollination mechanism that activates if a ...

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

Scientists have examined the soils in those parts of the Atacama desert that may not see any rains for decades. Still, the team led from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, found evidence ...

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive ... which lays its eggs inside the Joshua tree flower. Desert bird species could also be in danger from climate change ...

Scientists in Chile’s Atacama Desert have unearthed the fossil remains of a so-called “flying dragon,” a Jurassic-era dinosaur previously thought to only have occupied the northern hemisphere.