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☆ Scientists discover duck-billed dinosaur roamed Chile 72 million years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Scientists have dubbed the dinosaur Gonkoken nanoi and say it weighed up to a metric ton and could grow to 4 meters (13.12 feet) in length according to the study published in Science Advances. In 2013, an expedition led by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) discovered fragments of yellowish bones at the bottom of a hillside close to the major tourist destination Torres del Paine in Patagonia. "(The) Gonkoken nanoi is not an advanced duck-billed dinosaur, but rather an older transitional duck-billed lineage: an evolutionary link to advanced forms," said Alexander Vargas, another study author. "Gon" means similar or similar to and "koken" means wild duck or swan. Reporting by Fabian Andres Cambero; Writing by Alexander Villegas; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Torres del, Read, del, Jhonathan Alarcon, Alarcon, Alexander Vargas, Mario, Fabian Andres Cambero, Alexander Villegas, Sandra Maler Organizations: El valle del rio, Torres del Paine, Chilean Antarctic Institute, del Paine, Thomson Locations: Chilean, El valle del, Chinas, Torres, Magallanes, Antarctic, Chile, SANTIAGO, Patagonia

☆ Chile announces biological corridor to protect endangered deer
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Rewilding Fundation Chile/Handout via REUTERSSANTIAGO, March 6 (Reuters) - Chile launched a program on Monday to protect the huemul, an endangered southern deer, by creating a biological corridor that includes an area recently donated by the family of the late philanthropist and founder of the North Face, Douglas Tompkins. The Rewilding Chile Foundation, Tompkins' legacy, along with Chile's Ministry of Agriculture, said that the "Huemul National Corridor" will be made up of approximately 16 connected, state-protected areas alongside other private conservation initiatives. Last week, Kristine Tompkins, co-founder and president of Rewilding Chile, met with President Gabriel Boric to donate 93,492 hectares (231,024 acres) for the creation of a new national park in the Magallanes region. The huemul is one of two species of native deer found only in the Patagonian forests of Argentina and Chile. Despite being originally found in areas in central Chile, the huemul can now be seen mainly in the southernmost regions of Aysen and Magallanes.

☆ 'The grass does not grow': In Chile's far south, the worst drought in 50 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view of parched earth as a wetland is drying up, in Punta Arenas, Chile February 2, 2023. In the far south city of Punta Arenas, that has led to a water emergency declared last year. "In 2022 Punta Arenas had its driest year in 52 years," said Nicolas Butorovic, a climatologist from the regional University of Magallanes. "The wind picks up and dries everything and the grass does not grow, that is the drama we're facing," said Hector Garay, a livestock farmer in the region. "If there is no irrigation water, water from rain, the grass does not grow.

☆ Scientists unearth megaraptors, feathered dinosaur fossils in Chile's Patagonia
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Marion Giraldo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area's food chain before their mass extinction. The specimens, according to University of Chile researcher Jared Amudeo, had some characteristics not present in Argentine or Brazilian counterparts. "The enormous variation we are seeing, the biological diversity, was also responding to very powerful environmental stimuli," Leppe said. "This world was already in crisis before (the meteorite) and this is evidenced in the rocks of the Rio de las Chinas Valley," he said. Reporting by Marion Giraldo; Writing by Sarah Morland, Editing by Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ At Chile wine gala, climate change and water use in focus
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SANTIAGO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Chile's vintners are increasingly thinking about how to adapt to shifts in climate and drier weather that has seen the Andean country gripped by drought for over a decade. "It's something that worries all of us vineyards," said Magdalena Villasante from Vina Undurraga, which won the event's top award for its Syrah Carignan Grenache blend. Chile is the world's fourth-largest wine exporter, but dry weather has pushed vineyards to shift. Land for wine growing dropped some 4% in the five years until 2020, with the central Santiago Metropolitan Region, the country's third-largest wine producing region, seeing a decline of nearly 14%, official data show. "We'll probably see more wines from Aysen and Magallanes (in Chile's deep south) in the future what with climate change," Rojas told Reuters.

Oamenii de știință au găsit în Chile fosile ale unei noi specii de mamifer care a trăit în urmă cu 72 de milioane de aniFosile ale unei noi specii de mamifer din Cretacicul Superior, cu o vârstă cuprinsă între 72 de milioane şi 74 de milioane de ani, au fost descoperite în Patagonia de pe teritoriul statului Chile, a anunţat miercuri Institutul Chilian Antarctic (INACH). Descoperirea a fost realizată pe teritoriul unui sit considerat unul dintre cele mai mari rezervoare de fosile de dinozaur din regiune. Noua specie, denumită Orretherium tzen, a fost descoperită în Cerro Guido, din regiunea Magallanes, situată la circa 2.700 de kilometri sud de Santiago de Chile, unde cercetătorii au găsit resturi dintr-o mandibulă cu cinci dinţi consecutivi, notează AFP, citată de digi24.ro. Potrivit cercetătorilor, zona a fost locuită de specii preistorice din America şi Antarctica, care au migrat în urmă cu milioane de ani traversând fâşii de pământ aflate sub ape şi care au ieşit la suprafaţă după scăderea temperaturilor. Specimenul era înrudit cu alte mamifere descoperite în Patagonia de pe teritoriul Argentinei.

Persons: Agustin Martinelli, Alexander Vargas Locations: Chile, Patagonia, Cerro Guido, Magallanes, Santiago, America, Antarctica, Argentinei, Argentina, Gondwana

☆ Fosile ale unei noi specii de mamifer, care a trăit în urmă cu 72 de milioane de ani, descoperite în Chile
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-08 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Fosile ale unei noi specii de mamifer din Cretacicul Superior, cu o vârstă cuprinsă între 72 de milioane şi 74 de milioane de ani, au fost descoperite în Patagonia de pe teritoriul statului Chile, au anunţat reprezentanții Institutul Chilian Antarctic, potrivit AFP, citează hotnews.ro. Noua specie, denumită Orretherium tzen, a fost descoperită în Cerro Guido, din regiunea Magallanes, situată la circa 2.700 de kilometri sud de Santiago de Chile, unde cercetătorii au găsit resturi dintr-o mandibulă cu cinci dinţi consecutivi. Descoperirea a fost realizată pe teritoriul unui sit considerat unul dintre cele mai mari rezervoare de fosile de dinozaur din regiune. Potrivit cercetătorilor, zona a fost locuită de specii preistorice din America şi Antarctica, care au migrat în urmă cu milioane de ani traversând fâşii de pământ aflate sub ape şi care au ieşit la suprafaţă după scăderea temperaturilor. Specimenul era înrudit cu alte mamifere descoperite în Patagonia de pe teritoriul Argentinei.

Organizations: Chilian Locations: Patagonia, Chile, Cerro Guido, Magallanes, Santiago, America, Antarctica, Argentinei

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