Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research stations in the Antarctic, ...

Scientists researching Alpine glaciers store ice in Antarctica. By analysing air bubbles in the ice they may be able to predict the future ...

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

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

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

Operation HighJump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica. Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E Byrd, one of the most famous ...

In 2017, scientists discovered amber in a sediment core from the Antarctic, and analysis since has revealed a startling truth ...