Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell ...

Towering icebergs, cresting humpback whales, and more penguins than people, a Hurtigruten Antarctica cruise was truly the ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

It just dips into a semi twilight from 9:00 PM to midnight, changing the landscape ... the food in Antarctica to be this excellent. Our guide Ethan is taking us to the ice cave today.