When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

A Spanish scientific expedition has discovered columns of gas emerging from the seabed. Geologists also warn about the ...

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

Michelle Spear of Columbus captured this shot of a whale breaching off the coast of Antarctica on Feb. 8. Michelle Spear of Columbus captured this shot of a whale breaching off the coast of Antarctica ...

Two hundred million years ago, icy Antarctica was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs.

Feb. 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. In Antarctica, killer whales hunt using their intelligence and teamwork. Swimming ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...