The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

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

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink ...

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

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...

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

Antarctica was once a distant, almost mythical destination at the end of the world. However, in the age of global travel, ...

Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai, completed following ...

Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...