The Icy Wilderness Under Threat The Arctic and Antarctic are two of the most unique and fragile ecosystems on our planet.

Deep within Antarctica’s Ellsworth Mountains, a pyramid-shaped peak has intrigued scientists and conspiracy theorists alike.

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

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...

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 ...

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