A team of researchers sampling soil beneath a millennia-old conifer in southern Chile found that a single ancient tree can harbor fungal diversity far exceeding the surrounding forest floor. The study ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Estimated to be more than 2,400 years old, one alerce tree in Chile’s Alerce Costero National Park hosts about twice as much fungal diversity underground as younger alerce trees, a team of researchers ...

Ancient humans hunted a now-extinct species of elephant 12,000 years ago in Chile, according to a new study. Photo from PLOS One Thousands of years ago, early humans were hunting massive animals in ...