Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl.

Not so long ago ... was 8.1 million square miles (21 million square kilometers). The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

The more he studied Antarctica, the more forbidding it seemed. The continent is nearly five and a half million square miles ... as Shackleton had a hundred years ago on his first day.” ...

Want to know the 5 most mysterious places on earth that defy scientific explanation? Here’s the list of the most baffling ...

This time, the victim is so rare that it was once thought to have been extinct 65 million years ago and is known by the moniker “living fossil”. This week, pictures have surfaced of a dead Coelacanth ...

A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Scientists Discover 280-Million-Year-Old Forest in Antarctica! When and How? Brad Pitt gets us hyped for Super Bowl LIX and ...