In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started ...

In 1929, the hunting of chinchillas – a rodent endemic to South America – was banned, as a century of ruthless harvesting had rendered the species “commercially extinct.” What was the upshot?

The Maine Chinchilla Shelter introduced us to a few chinchillas all looking for loving homes. What you should know before you adopt.