Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...

Antarctica, the colossal kingdom of ice, is also home to the ethereal ballet of sun mirages, a phenomenon where sunlight ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have ...

Internet users want to know what the strange doorway in Antarctica ice is- theories suggesting Bigfoot or an underground ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Research scientists in remote locations need to get creative in order to follow their favorite teams, even when they don’t ...