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

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

Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what ...

Gentoo penguins make their way to the ocean on Brown Bluff, a basalt tuya located on the Tabarin Peninsula of northern Antarctica. Photograph by Michaela Skovranova 5 min read “Everywhere we ...

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

Hotspots are located under West Antarctica; in contrast, the East is broadly relatively cold This is the best map yet produced of the warmth coming up from the rocks underneath the Antarctic ice ...

In East Antarctica, just southeast of Japanese research outpost Showa Station, eagle-eyed users spotted a mysterious “doorway,” which has become the topic of wild theories online, with some ...

A scientist was searching satellites for signs of unreported emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica when he made a shocking ...

In West Antarctica, the interior of the ice sheet sits atop bedrock that lies well below sea level. As the Southern Ocean warms, scientists are concerned the ice sheet will continue to retreat ...

The animals are only found in the wild in Antarctica, but they are increasingly threatened ... Four out of five emperor penguin colonies analyzed in the Bellingshausen Sea, west of the Antarctic ...

Frank Wild, who hailed from the small village of ... to Ernest Shackleton on the ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica's South Pole.