The types of animals we know today have several similarities with those that lived on Earth millions of years ago, but also ...

Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the creatures reproducing in a polar region ...

By the end of the Cretaceous period, most of the continents were already in their current locations. Australia was still attached to Antarctica, and India was alone in the Indian Ocean by then.

Climate data gathered from oyster fossils is challenging the common belief that Antarctica was ice-free during the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago and offers insight into climate behaviour ...

Antarctica remained largely overlooked for another half-century, until it once again became of interest during the International Geophysical Year (IGY), from July 1957 to December 1958.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Yeah it turns out 120 million years ago or so Australia was home to some pretty interesting and ...

Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a million years before the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on Earth, it went extinct.

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now Antarctica during the late Cretaceous period. A new study, in which ...