Deep beneath the barren landscape of Antarctica lies secrets to the climatic history of the world. Frozen in the ice are ...

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After nearly a week, the party reached Elephant Island, a rocky, barren scrap of land a hundred and fifty miles from mainland Antarctica and eight hundred miles southwest of South Georgia Island.

It was during one of the most barren times of the year in North Dakota when Brooklyn Miller started to make plans for a garden. Then a sophomore, Miller, who had organized a Super Bowl food drive ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...

Scientists used computer models to predict how water flows under the entire Antarctic ice sheet, which dictates where and how quickly glaciers move toward the ocean. The findings, published Dec ...

Scientists in Antarctica have discovered what may be the oldest modern bird ever found. The 69 million-year-old fossil could finally put a longstanding debate about the origin of modern birds to rest.

The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...

Antarctica is truly a bucket-list destination, as the beautiful continent can be difficult and expensive to get to. Most Antarctic cruises cost thousands of dollars a person and many only sail ...

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have teamed up to launch brand-new science project to monitor krill from space Krill are a key species in Antarctic marine ...