Whether a new subspecies, a species, or just a new population, these coastal chinchillas act in ways scientists have never seen before. By James Hall/Hakai Magazine Published May 24, 2023 9:00 PM EDT ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. In 2020, on a rocky hillside overlooking the vast swell of the Pacific Ocean, near the Chilean port city of Antofagasta, a local man walking ...

The short-tailed chinchilla, a high-altitude South American rodent, was hunted almost to extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries for its highly prized fur. It’s now endangered, and one small colony ...

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Molecular phylogenetic relationships were investigated in 6 species of Chinchillidae (Chinchilla lanigera, C. brevicaudata, Lagidium peruanum, L. viscacia, L. wolffsohni, and Lagostomus maximus), 1 ...

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