Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

Internet users want to know what the strange doorway in Antarctica ice is- theories suggesting Bigfoot or an underground ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

They’re often found in vast clusters dotted across entire fields, with one of the most remarkable places to see them being ...

TUCKED away in a corner of Antarctica lies a mysterious mountain peak that looks exactly like a man-made pyramid with four symmetrical sides. The snowy structure of the ice-locked continent has a ...

A pilot has deconstructed the mystery around why airplanes avoid flights over Antartica – and the reasoning may surprise you. Here's everything you need to know ...

Led by the Australian Antarctic Division, instruments deployed in the lake measure water temperature, salinity, and depth, offering vital data on the interaction between the ice shelf and the ocean.

Chapter I of the tale was written with a bang two months ago when a garbled radio message from Flyer Lincoln Ellsworth, far out over Antarctica, was followed by dreadful silence. Last week ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest known modern bird.

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...