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Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's ice
Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...
Scientists Just Found The Oldest Modern Bird Buried in the Antarctic Ice
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
How Antarctica’s only native insect could hold secrets to deep space travel
Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...
First bird to roam Earth after dinosaurs were killed by asteroid revealed and it’s a relative of much-loved species
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...
Scientists discover microplastics in Antarctica's most remote regions - as they warn 'nowhere on Earth is truly untouched'
The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...
Microplastics Discovered In Antarctica
Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...
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Ancient bird skull from Antarctica might be from early duck relative
The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...
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Scientists discover microplastics in Antarctica's most remote regions - as they warn 'nowhere on Earth is truly untouched'
Worryingly, the implications of microplastics in this frozen ... Antarctica is also home to a range of animals including penguins, seals, and fish - many of which have already been found to ...