East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

A single backbone fragment collected in 1985 has now been identified as the first confirmed dinosaur fossil from Antarctica.

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...

The marine rock around the fossil also suggests the animal likely ended up at sea after it died.

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot ...

Picture a research station buried in the ice shelf of East Antarctica in the fall of 1961, months from the nearest port, with a blizzard sealing off any hope of a plane landing. Now picture the only ...