Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Indian-American Akshay Nirvana is on a solo journey to world's coldest and loneliest continent-Antarctica. He has embarked a ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

Former US Marine and author Akshay Nanavati has embarked on a daring 110-day solo ski expedition across Antarctica. He aims ...

Antarctica, often considered the last pristine wilderness, is undergoing a striking transformation. Once dominated by vast ...

An emperor penguin was rescued from an Australian beach after presumably making a 2,000-mile trek from its Antarctic habitat.

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide was high in the Cretaceous, making the world in general a warmer place. Moreover, the lack of an ...

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...