Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 69-million-year-old bird skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, belonged to Vegavis iaai, an ancient diving bird related to ...

A MARK SMALLER THAN A COIN HAS SCIENTISTS RETHINKING WHAT WAS WALKING AROUND ANTARCTICA It is a strange feeling, learning ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, except through the haziness of humid air. But when it comes to melting ice ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

New research has uncovered ancient wildfires that raged through prehistoric rainforests in Antarctica – shaping our landscape. The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, found clear ...

A team of paleontologists from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island off the Antarctic Peninsula have demonstrated how ancient bird bones can act as ...

Millions of years ago – where the perpetual ice of Antarctica and the dry dust of the Atacama Desert today stretch – lush forests flourished, full of araucaria trees, giant ferns, and vegetation that ...

A sediment core pulled from the seabed off West Antarctica has preserved evidence of a forest that grew near the South Pole about 90 million years ago, when the continent was warm enough to support a ...

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