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The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups...
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing...

Authorities raise alert level around Lascar volcano in northern Chile

Authorities in Chile on Saturday raised the alert level and limited access to the area around the Lascar volcano, after an increase in seismic...

Lascar volcano in Chile stirs, sending plume skyward

A volcano in the Andes in Chile's north rumbled to life early Saturday, triggering minor earth tremors and sending a plume of smoke and...

Sinkhole larger than tennis court has Chile perplexed

Experts in Chile on Tuesday were investigating the appearance of an enormous sinkhole, bigger than a tennis court, that has appeared near a copper...

Megathrust earthquake and tsunami 3,800 years ago kept hunter-gathers in Chile inland for 1,000 years

An international team of researchers has found evidence of a megathrust earthquake occurring approximately 3,800 years ago off the coast of what is now...

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