The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey.
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Life is different on the world's coldest continent, where both researchers and visitors can still feel like explorers on the edge of the vast unknown.
Exquisite, fossilized skull sheds light on the evolutionary origins of waterfowl ...
A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found.
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ancestors of today's waterfowl, surviving that mass ...
Antarctica has been called the 'final frontier' for humanity's understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...
As climate change melts West Antarctica's glaciers, scientists are proposing bold ideas to avoid devastating sea level rise. Will they work?
Birds evolved during the Jurassic Period from small feathered dinosaurs ...
A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.