Amber usually brings to mind tropical forests, trapped insects, and warm landscapes. That is what makes the new Antarctic ...

Deep under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, scientists have mapped a landscape that has never been exposed to sunlight. Using ...

A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure.

Scientists have found a massive fan-shaped structure buried beneath East Antarctica, connecting some of the continent’s most ...

Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main stage. Now a series of discoveries from the bottom of the world is forcing ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

A previously unidentified island in Antarctica's Weddell Sea has been discovered by researchers, after what was marked as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cryolophosaurus is one of the most fascinating dinosaur discoveries ever made, not just because of its size, but because of where ...

On satellite images, it was virtually indistinguishable from the flotilla of icebergs drifting around it. When approached from the horizon through the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea, it even looked like one, ...

Marine scientists have discovered that what was once thought to be a single sea slug species is actually at least 75 distinct species that were shaped over millions of years by repeated Antarctic ...