Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot ...

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

A small tail vertebra picked up on a windswept Antarctic island in 1985 did not look like much. For decades, it was treated ...

At first glance, puffins and penguins look like they could be cousins. Both wear the same black-and-white outfit, waddle on land, and spend much of their lives at sea. It's one of the most common ...