Lake Vida, a salty lake buried under a 60-foot-thick sheet of ice in Antarctica, has renewed scientists' hopes of finding alien life in space, even in the most inhospitable places. The lake ...

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 ...

Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica. The evidence comes from a study of tiny marine animals living either side of the 2km thick ...

Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls puzzled scientists worldwide. Was it a frozen crime scene, ancient bacteria, or something even stranger? The mystery is finally solved, and the truth behind this ...

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.

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis ... Dr Patrick O’Connor, a co-author of the research, says that this “underscores that Antarctica has much to tell us about the ...

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Australian scientists have begun a new major ice core drilling project in Antarctica. They hope to search through more than a million years of climate history for clues about our planet's past and ...

Photo Credit: MARK WITTON 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 waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly ...