The video shows an area in Antarctica where rocky outcroppings jut up above the ice sheet. The building is a South African research station.

In a nutshell Iceberg A23a is drifting toward South Georgia, but experts believe it will likely run aground before reaching land. New research suggests Antarctic icebergs have been drifting for at ...

A gigantic iceberg is currently moving toward the island of South Georgia, a remote wildlife haven in the South Atlantic. While it is common for icebergs to break away from Antarctica and drift into ...

the most logical starting point for the icebergs is also home to bedrock that corresponds to the types of rock found in the debris at South Orkney. Apparently, during the late Eocene Antarctica ...

In Antarctica’s extreme conditions, water seeps into tiny cracks in the rock during warmer periods, then freezes as temperatures drop. Because water expands when it freezes, this process exerts ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Nevertheless, another waterfowl from the same Antarctic rock formation, Conflicto antarcticus, represents one of the first surviving species we know from after the disaster. The light bones that ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...