Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...
Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...
New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species in its family to show different claw characteristics between sexes.
Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell disaster for thousands.
Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...
Our continent is gradually drifting closer to Asia, moving at a rate of seven centimetres per year ...
Protecting the vast ocean highways travelled by whales is a critical challenge. As these magnificent creatures undertake ...
On December 5th, the party sailed toward the Weddell Sea, the southernmost arm of the Atlantic Ocean, and headed for Antarctica ... As they climbed a ridge overlooking a bowl-shaped valley ...
About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from what is now Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica ... narrow ocean basin with its own mid-ocean ridge between ...
Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.