Antarctica, the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on Earth, may seem inhospitable, but it is home to a mesmerizing ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...

Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered how the Antarctic midge survives in extreme climates through a ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that ...

For decades people were puzzling over a phenomenon of mysterious origin that stretched across every continent on the globe apart from Antarctica. Residents of Earth and scientists alike had ...

Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to the oldest known modern ...