Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications reveals how carbon dioxide levels surged during the end of the last ice age ...

Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

The renewable energy system ensures stable power in Antarctica’s extreme conditions, and is estimated to cut fossil fuel use ...

Over 100 million years ago, Australia's dinosaurs shared links with South America's due to the continents' connection through Antarctica. Fossils reveal the presence of distinct theropods such as ...

The fossils discovered by Kotevski and his colleagues ... Southern Australia was close enough to the South Pole that it was within the Antarctic Circle during the Cretaceous, although the region ...

Scientists used one of Australia's most powerful supercomputers to model how melting ice sheets might change the Antarctic ...