Antarctica is famous for its frigid temperatures, desolate landscape, penguins, and the predators who eat them. That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and ...

For over 500 million years, something extraordinary has been hidden beneath Antarctica’s thick, icy surface. Now, scientists are more convinced than ever: another ancient mountain range lies ...

A Giant Ancient River System Revealed Beneath Antarctica’s Ice We knew there had to be rivers when parts of Antarctica were ice-free, but now the extent and timing of one has been revealed.

Taken together, the two fossil fragments points to a more varied picture of giant bird life in ancient Antarctica, the scientists said in their new analysis. In their paper, they wrote: “None of ...

Before and after Last year, while fossil-hunting in Antarctica, Gulbranson and his team found the oldest polar forest on record from the southern polar region. They haven't dated that forest ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience.

The first giant pelagornithids, the ones in our study, took flight over Antarctica about 10 million years later, in a period called the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago).

Did you know Antarctica hides over 100 volcanoes beneath its icy surface? Mount Erebus is just the beginning—many of these hidden giants could be waking up, and climate change is playing a key ...

A quest to understand if and how life can endure in extreme cold -- on Earth and, perhaps one day, on Mars -- is sending researchers to Antarctica to search for, and then sequence, ancient bacteria.

The first giant pelagornithids, the ones in our study, took flight over Antarctica about 10 million years later, in a period called the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago).