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 ...

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

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years ...

DENNIS Kowalski spends his days surrounded by dozens of bodies stored in a giant warehouse – and has spent thousands of pounds to eventually join them. Alongside his wife and three children, ...

A newly unearthed 69-million-year-old fossil is shaking up long-standing debates among paleontologists about when modern ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a – which recently broke free from a decades-long imprisonment in Antarctica – is currently ...

Sea ice is critical habitat for a variety of animals ... Scripps researchers have found that geologic formations that allow water to flow below ice shelves are responsible for differing melt rates of ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

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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.

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