Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main stage. Now a series of discoveries from the bottom of the world is forcing ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cryolophosaurus is one of the most fascinating dinosaur discoveries ever made, not just because of its size, but because of where ...

This week, scientists are intrigued by the discovery of a nearly white penguin that was discovered in Chilean Antarctica. The penguin, which is a female, is part of a colony of Gentoo penguins — who ...

A small piece of amber found in West Antarctica is changing how scientists picture the continent’s past. Pulled from the Pine ...

What appeared to be a ‘dirty iceberg' turned out to be an uncharted island, discovered during a Polarstern expedition in one of Antarctica's most difficult regions.

The surface waters of the Antarctic are a cold, still world of ice, hovering around minus one degree Celsius. Thousands of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A team of international researchers has discovered a previously uncharted island in Antarctica, a finding that is now prompting updates to global navigation maps and raising new ...