A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls puzzled scientists worldwide. Was it a frozen crime scene, ancient bacteria, or something even ...

You can find it for yourself by entering the coordinates 72°00’52″S 168°35’37″E. It’s not the first time Antarctica has ...

Storyline: Despite being many miles from home in one of the world’s most inhospitable environments, China’s 41st Antarctic expedition team still managed to bring some warmth to the polar ice cap with ...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey have used ice core records to draw new conclusions ...

At a site in Eastern Antarctica known as Little Dome C Field ... The ice column is the length of six Empire State buildings. It represents ancient record of the Earth's climate and the story ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that ... on the planet. The site is 21 miles (34 kilometers ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

Antarctica has a wild ... The White Continent’s history is not ancient; it was discovered only a little more than 200 years ago. As a result, many of the original accounts of its mapping ...