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

Before the second winter, the larvae reach their final stage but don't pupate. Instead, they enter obligatory diapause, a natural dormancy phase in their life cycle.

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Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be ... a physical oceanographer at Sorbonne University in France, told Live Science in an email. The melting of a massive ice shelf like FRIS would ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is recruiting chefs, plumbers, and electricians to live and work at the South Pole. And, if the opportunity to work alongside penguins wasn't appealing enough ...

ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons digests US President Donald Trump's extraordinary declaration that the United States will 'take over' the Gaza Strip. Why is Brazil taking on the tech titans and ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

If you think you can brave the elements, consider moving to these regions where bone-chilling temperatures are the norm.

That's the very bottom of the planet. In parts of Antarctica the winter temperature can be minus 60°C. Nobody lives in Antarctica permanently. Some scientists stay there to work and carry out ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions ...