Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the ... fossil of the oldest known modern bird, an early relative of ducks and geese that lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus ...

Argentina’s Ushuaia and Chile’s Punta Arenas are the usual departure points for West Antarctic voyages, and to the relief of Antarctic tourists dreading Australia’s southern oceans or the infamous ...

Between 122 and 108 million years ago, the Australian landmass was much farther south than today. Victoria was positioned ...

“Those few places with a respectable Late Cretaceous fossil record of birds, like Madagascar, reveal an aviary of bizarre early birds with ... Natural History), 2025 Antarctica during the Late ...

Sixty-six million years ... But for the early ancestors of today’s waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event was like…water off a duck’s back. Location matters, as Antarctica may ...

Despite Antarctica not belonging to any state, as many as seven countries have made historical territorial claims on it.

For over a century, scientists were baffled by Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls, where deep red water flows from a glacier, ...