Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.
Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...
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.
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
A newly unearthed 69-million-year-old fossil is shaking up long-standing debates among paleontologists about when modern ...
Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...
Two hundred million years ago, icy Antarctica was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs.
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
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, ...