Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

“If you look on nautical charts, it calls this island Bombay Island after this boat,” Lockton said of the remains of an old ...

Archaeologists amassed over 100 sediment samples in Antarctica to trace the history of Adélie penguins 6,000 years into the ...

It is hoped that advanced analysis of this segment could help test previous theories about the behaviour of refrozen ice under the Antarctic ice sheet and reveal East Antarctica’s glaciation ...

Earth's past, present and future come together on Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of the continents. Scientists say it holds clues to humanity's most important questions ...

While that scenario is extreme, it shows how much water is stored in Antarctica and how important it is to our climate. Antarctic ice sheets are the thermostat of the planet, and that thermostat ...

An Antarctic discovery might offer new insights into the origins of modern birds. The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of ...

Researchers conclude that Adélie penguins took over the Antarctic habits of seals when sea ice started to expand around 1,400 ...

A research base in Antarctica. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. It was one of the most famous expeditions in history. No single country owns ...

In order to attempt to make history, the Ice Maidens have first ... lives and how they think they will cope without it while in Antarctica. (L-R): Lance corporal Rinn Cobb (reserve), Major Natalie ...

Not only is Deception Island littered with lore and history, it's also one of the ... row alone through the roughest seas on the planet to Antarctica. Very little went according to plan.