An internet user claims to have discovered a shape in the Antarctic snow resembling an alien face. The satellite image ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

Chapter I of the tale was written with a bang two months ago when a garbled radio message from Flyer Lincoln Ellsworth, far out over Antarctica, was followed by dreadful silence. Last week ...

“This transition remains a scientific mystery, particularly regarding ... responds to different greenhouse gas concentrations. “Antarctic ice cores are like Rosetta Stones,” said Jim White ...

Led by the Australian Antarctic Division, instruments deployed in the lake measure water temperature, salinity, and depth, offering vital data on the interaction between the ice shelf and the ocean.

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

The Late Cretaceous modern bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. (Credit: Mark Witton, ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...