Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

Photos from Mars have sparked a discussion about mysterious doors on the planet. The material surprised many, as the ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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 ...

An international collaboration of 68 institutes, including the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), has ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

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