Irishman William Maunsell and American Ashley Paulson won the men's and women's events at the Great World Race in Antarctica ...

The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

William Maunsell and Ashley Paulson set new marathon records at the Great World Race in Antarctica. Maunsell finished in 2:38 ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Former US Marine and author Akshay Nanavati has embarked on a daring 110-day solo ski expedition across Antarctica. He aims ...

An emperor penguin was rescued from an Australian beach after presumably making a 2,000-mile trek from its Antarctic habitat.