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 ...

Scientists have unearthed a colossal, fan-shaped geological formation hidden beneath East Antarctica's ice. This massive structure, dubbed the East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province, connects ...

The White Continent: Still Mysterious After Two Centuries Antarctica, also known as the White Continent, was only discovered at the start of the 19th century. That means humans have explored it for ...

Buried beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice, a newly discovered fan-shaped geological structure is changing how scientists ...

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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new discovery has closed a significant gap in the global map of amber finds: for the first time, amber has been unearthed in ...

A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative. Of course, situations like this ...

A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that roamed Antarctica roughly 83 million years ago, according to a ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and mysterious plants. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but ...

A vertebra discovered by British scientists in 1985 has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica, shedding new light on how these animals spread across the southern hemisphere.

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