Every winter, Antarctica roughly doubles in size as sea ice locks into place over the ocean. Typically, Breid Bay in East Antarctica is entirely covered in a frozen crust from July through August. But ...

Explore Antarctica with this fun and educational Geography Coloring Poster! This printable Antarctica continent study combines geography, animals, plants, maps and interesting facts in an engaging ...

A saildrone is about to embark on an unusual 22,000 km circumnavigation of Antarctica. I featured the story in a recent weekly geography quiz, students were fascinated by the journey, so I put ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since 2021, East Antarctica has ...

DK Metcalf says of Antarctica: “I think there is another civilization inside of Earth.” Joe Sargent / Getty Images Read our exclusive DK Metcalf interview with Jonathan Jones. DK Metcalf loves ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic. Slow-moving waves deep inside Earth gradually lifted East Antarctica, building mountains and a high ...

A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about “potentially hazardous” space activity, according to New Zealand authorities. A spokesperson for New Zealand’s ...

Antarctica’s Blood Falls looks exactly like what the feature’s name suggests. But despite appearing to bleed out for millions of years, its waters are actually home to an array of microscopic life.

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Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another 25 million years for ice to cover the Arctic, and the question of how the ...

The first dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described scientifically. The fossil, a vertebra, was found on a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) expedition in 1985 but has only ...