With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Antarctica, the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on Earth, may seem inhospitable, but it is home to a mesmerizing ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

Henipaviruses can infect many animals, including bats, horses, monkeys, dogs, cats and even rodents. This means they are more ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to ...

Antarctica is also home to a range of animals including penguins, seals, and fish - many of which have already been found to contain microplastics. The researchers hope the findings will help to ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...