When a bizarre-looking tiny skeleton was discovered in the Atacama Desert way back in 2003, UFO hunters believed they finally had proof of an alien being, but new research reveals that the strange ...

Ana Vicente and her team at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro began their quest for ancient pinworm RNA at San Pedro de Atacama, a pre-Incan village ... Archaeological Museum to give ...

Perimortem cranium fractures, Formative Period. Violence in fishing, hunting, and gathering societies of the Atacama Desert coast: A long-term perspective (10,000 BP—AD 1450) Violence in fishing ...

Chile's "Hidden Lagoons" are gorgeous salt pools in the middle of the Atacama Desert. The pools are so high in salinity that swimmers can effortlessly float on their surface. Written and produced ...

Despite its extreme dryness, the desert is known as world's largest fog desert, with fog providing some moisture, particularly in coastal areas ...

which is home to some of the oldest mummies in the world, as per chile.travel. Foodies are also encouraged to try Azapa olive bread, a beloved local staple. The Atacama desert, which fringes the ...

Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Note the Petri plates with different growing media placed on top of the soil surface. Disclaimer ...

From the Egyptian side, you can explore the naturally chiselled chalk and limestone boulders of the White Desert ... while the best the Atacama can manage is windswept salt flats populated ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to one of the world’s richest copper belts, though the inhospitable enviroment makes it challenging to explore and develop. The exceedingly dry, high-altitude ...