A scientific expedition beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf led to an unexpected discovery in 2009 when researchers ...

A dinosaur fossil collected in Antarctica in 1985 has been identified decades later as belonging to a titanosaur, a group of ...

Scientists found active marine microorganisms beneath Antarctica's Blood Falls, providing the strongest evidence yet that its ...

Amber usually brings to mind tropical forests, trapped insects, and warm landscapes. That is what makes the new Antarctic find so striking. Buried beneath the Amundsen Sea, tiny resin fragments now ...

A bone found in Antarctica in 1985, and kept in a drawer in England for almost four decades, turns out to belong to one of the largest types of dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth.

An unassuming-looking fossil that spent 40 years lying forgotten in a drawer has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of the largest known fish breeding colony on Earth beneath the Filchner Ice Shelf in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The discovery ...

Hidden for more than a century, a remarkable collection is offering a rare glimpse into the famed 1900s Discovery expedition to Antarctica.

Hidden beneath hundreds of metres of Antarctic ice lies one of the planet's most extraordinary wildlife spectacles. After drilling through the Filchner Ice Shelf, scientists deployed an autonomous ...

It’s fun, when travelling, to match literature to location and bring books which somehow rhyme with the place you’re visiting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's first amber reveals a 90-million-year-old conifer rainforest that once grew near the South Pole. (CREDIT: DeviantArt) ...