Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

Most of the expeditions are still waiting to begin, but the two solo crossings are in progress. Equipment problems are ...

Recycled Percussion's Justin Spencer has successfully finished his first marathon in the Great World Race. Spencer completed ...

Emperor penguins, known as the heaviest and tallest of all penguins, in wild nature can only be found in Antarctica where ...

A new study has found evidence that 13th-century Polynesians settled as far south as the Auckland Islands, just 2,000 ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to explore one of Jupiter's moons without ever leaving Earth? Or what would ...

An emperor penguin was rescued from an Australian beach after presumably making a 2,000-mile trek from its Antarctic habitat.

A new film featuring the work of Rowan University climate scientist Jennifer Walker, Ph.D., will screen at Edelman ...

Geopolitical ambitions threaten Antarctica's peace, driving resource interest and testing the 1961 Antarctic Treaty.