Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed ...Middle East

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 million years ago ‪—‬ 20 million years before the Andes.

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