Fossilized forewings (elytra) from two individuals, discovered at the Oliver Bluffs on the Beardmore Glacier, revealed the first ground beetle species...
The oldest known syrinx (vocal organ) of a bird has been found, preserved in three dimensions in a 66-million-year-old specimen from Antarctica, according...
An international team of researchers led by Prof. Susan Solomon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has identified the first ‘fingerprints...
Small pieces of the mineral opal have been found within a brecciated ureilite meteorite from Antarctica. According to a team of scientists led by Prof....
Three teams of scientists have taken a detailed look into the biogeochemistry, geophysics and geology of subglacial Lake Whillans, which lies 2,600 feet...
Ornithologists from South Korea and Poland have shown for the first time that Antarctic brown skuas (Stercorarius antarcticus), a species that typically...
According to an analysis of satellite data published last month in the journal Geology, the world’s largest canyon system and a large lake may lie under...
Marine biologists from British Antarctic Survey and the University of Southampton, UK, have described the first species of yeti crab known from the Southern...
Using measurements of the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet made by a suite of satellites, a group of scientists led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University...
A team of researchers co-led by Dr Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Dr Jill Mikucki of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...
A team of researchers led by Jamin Greenbaum of the University of Texas at Austin has discovered two seafloor troughs that could allow warm ocean water...
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has confirmed a long-standing prediction that snowfall in Antarctica will increase significantly...
Pareledone charcoti, a shallow-water species of octopus from the Antarctic, uses an unique strategy to transport oxygen in its blood, says a new study...
Researchers from the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project have uncovered a unique ecosystem of fish and invertebrates...
According to a new NASA-led study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the melt rate of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West...
Researchers from Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as the SeaBED have created the first...
U.S. scientists headed by Dr Chi-Hing Christina Cheng of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have discovered that the so-called ‘antifreeze’...
