Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the largest soft-shelled egg on record and the second largest egg ever discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still ...

The mystery of ice-free Antarctica has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike, with ancient maps suggesting a time when the continent was free of ice. These maps, such as the Piri Reis map, have ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

Scientists have long known that Earth was significantly warmer about 3 million years ago, with much higher sea levels.

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A team of researchers have found rare pink rocks that have emerged out of the ground in the iconic continent of Antarctica, ...

Renowned French glaciologist Heidi Sevestre is studying the ancient ice of Antarctica Renowned French glaciologist Heidi Sevestre is studying the ancient ice of Antarctica Matthieu Tordeur is a French ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.