The mystery of ice-free Antarctica has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike, with ancient maps suggesting a time when the continent was free of ice. These maps, such as the Piri Reis map, have ...

Novel findings from University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado, Boulder, thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz have shed light on the complex and enigmatic ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. (Credit: Mark ...

Antarctica is famous for its frigid temperatures, desolate landscape, penguins, and the predators who eat them. That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...

Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate. When you purchase ...