Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

True, it is both small, at 3900 square kilometres, and remote at some 2000 kilometres from both the southern tip of Argentina and the Antarctic Peninsula ... A 20-day National Geographic ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

Even in the Southern Hemisphere's mid-summer, temperatures typically don't stray far above or below freezing along the Antarctic Peninsula. This peninsula extends northeastward into the warmer ...

open image in gallery In this illustration, the Late Cretaceous Vegavis iaai dives for fish off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula ... Dr. Christopher Torres, a National Science Foundation ...

A23a has followed roughly the same path as previous massive icebergs, passing the east side of the Antarctica Peninsula through the Weddell ... who is also part of the National Antarctic Research ...

TRAVEL TRENDS, ANTARCTICA Updated : Feb 3, 2025, 17:29 IST Planning an Antarctica trip? Here’s everything you need to know Often referred to as the last great frontier, Antarctica is the ...

Dr. Cubelio is the only Indian scientist participating in the multi-national Antarctic expedition to Ross Sea. “We get sunlight 24 hours a day in Antarctica as it’s summertime here.

bringing to life the remarkable survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition. The film, from National Geographic Documentary Films, combines restored archival ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai, completed following high-resolution micro-computed tomography of a fossil-bearing concretion discovered ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following high-resolution micro-computed tomography of a fossil-bearing concretion ...

The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...