Exotic animals seen where Antarctic ice used to be
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Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ice, scientists reported on Sunday.
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An Australian customs vessel heads south to Antarctica to monitor activities of the Japanese whaling fleet.
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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Ice can be loaded with dirt and, by consequence, fragments of ancient DNA that have been preserved by the cold.
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The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrives in Japan for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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A complex network of rivers and reservoirs beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet is mapped by US scientists.
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Antarctic glaciers are moving faster as they melt, bringing more ice into the oceans and causing sea levels to rise, according to a new study. By Stephen Leahy.
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Satellite data confirms glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have picked up speed in recent years.
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Carbon dioxide levels are higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, Antarctic ice shows.
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As the Arctic heats up sooner than scientists anticipated, animals like the polar bear are losing ground.
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by photographs that appear to show a skeleton jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast.
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Fossils suggest a worldwide cold spell millions of years ago caused the extinction of many cold-blooded animals in North America, thanks to a reverse greenhouse effect.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON - Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report.
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Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.
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WASHINGTON - Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.
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The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday. In life, 70 million years ago, the five-foot-long animal would have resembled Nessie, the long-necked creature reported to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.