The United States based Seafood Watch Program (SWP) has blacklisted Chilean seabass, advising U.S. consumers that the fish species is commonly exposed to mercury contamination. To prevent possible ...

An enormous and strange fish shocked everyone in the coasts of Arica, Chile. It was over 20 feet long and it didn’t look like any species in the area. But the biggest commotion were the rumors ...

NEW DELHI: Artisanal fishermen while hunting for bony fish off the Chilean coast, accidentally caught a species presumed lost, later identified as a fish described back in the 1880s. Originally ...

An international team charts four previously unnamed underwater canyons, investigates nearly 20 methane seep ecosystems ...

They found an abundance of animals, including possibly 60 new species or more, living in surprisingly diverse ecosystems off the Chilean coast, including commercially valuable fish swimming in ...

In 1980 the International Council for Bird Preservation petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Chilean woodstar under the Endangered Species Act. Finally, after 30 years and ...

a professor at the University of Chile who studies evolutionary biology. Scientists at the Millennium Institute's genome center have been studying the fish and found genes that allow it to resist ...

It’s heartbreaking that a species that outlived the dinosaurs now faces extinction at human hands,” said Melissa Cancino, ...

Amazed Chilean scientists have identified a new bird species, the Sub-Antarctic rayadito in the Diego Ramirez Islands that lie 100 kilometers from southern Chile's Cape Horn. The small brown bird ...