Everything we thought we knew about theicy continent could be shattered by a stunning discovery in Antarctica. Scientists in Germany have unearthed 90-million-year-old amber on the continent, ...

Located between the Amorphous and Boulder Clay glaciers in Antarctica is Lake Enigma, a body of water that regularly experiences temperatures around seven degrees Fahrenheit. During the winter, it can ...

The first comprehensive “inventory” of sea and land animals around a group of Antarctic islands reveals a region that is rich in biodiversity and has more species than the Galapagos. The study ...

What would you expect to find within a permanently frozen Antarctic lake? As if the name Lake Enigma wasn’t mysterious enough, polar scientists have just discovered unique microbial groups living ...

(CNN) — A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious ...

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WASHINGTON — Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report. Climate warming has led to an increase in the number of ...

An international research team, including Dr. Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has found hundreds of new marine species in the vast, dark deep-sea surrounding Antarctica—the ...

During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ponds on the surface of equatorial glaciers. MIT researchers discovered that ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists ...

‘Some can’t handle the isolation, the extreme weather, the perspective you lose when you can’t judge distances in the whiteness’: The Sanae IV research station in Antarctica - South Africa National ...

Discovered: Life in Antarctic ice; how owls twist their necks like that; the flu came early this year because of a warm winter; cats and humans are very alike (when it comes to a form of epilepsy).