In the frozen world of Antarctica, one tiny insect has mastered the art of survival. The Antarctic midge, the only insect ...

Antarctica, a frozen frontier of ice and intrigue, has captivated the hearts of intrepid travelers for years. The promise of ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

But the protest may have raised less of a stink than intended, as organizers acknowledged that much of the animal dung remained frozen solid to the truck bed. “Because of the freezing ...

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

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

What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...

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 Antarctica during the late Cretaceous period.

A 69-million-year-old Antarctic fossil proves some birds thrived before the dinosaurs’ extinction, reshaping avian evolution ...