The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis iaai and was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Palaeontology Project ... ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Until this discovery, researchers assumed that the Antarctic Ice Sheet was formed from the center outward around 34 million ... “Although East Antarctica was covered in ice, beech trees were still ...

This new addition follows the successful delivery of a similar unit in 2023. Notably, the previous aircraft of this type achieved a milestone in November 2024, when it made its inaugural landing at ...

As 2025 began, meltwater was still visible on the ice sheet’s surface, stretching from the Antarctic Peninsula in the west to ice shelves in the east, including the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.

The reality star, 33, who appeared on the ITV dating show in 2015, has become a prominent activist to raise awareness of the disturbing rise of deepfake porn and call for the Government to clamp ...

Challenges for the Antarctic Treaty China's involvement in Antarctica is by no means new. The country set up its first research station in 1985, just two years after joining the Antarctic Treaty ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

“Immediately after the storm, there wasn’t much structural damage, but we did have tree and road damage,” Armando Garcia, the marketing and tourism director of Beech Mountain, tells Travel ...

in Antarctica. The UK's national polar research institute British Antarctic Survey are looking for people to work at its stations on the world's southern most continent, where temperatures can ...

Dr Sarah Thompson, a glaciologist with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, said Denman Glacier was of interest because it contained so much water. “The Denman Glacier is one of the ...