Rare Dinosaur Fossil Discovered in Antarctica Was Hidden in a Drawer for More Than 40 Years

The dinosaur measured about 23 feet long, making it relatively small for a titanosaur, researchers said ...
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Fossil Kept in a Drawer For 40 Years Turns Out to Be Antarctica's First Evidence of Dinosaurs

This is the first evidence of dinosaurs ever collected from Antarctica. (British Antarctic Survey) A fossil that has been ...

The Unlikely Creature That Could Revolutionize Melanoma Treatment

A bacterial toxin from one of Antarctica's most overlooked creatures kills melanoma cells without harming healthy ones, and a team of scientists just risked everything in freezing polar waters to ...

An Antarctic sea squirt could help treat melanoma

During an expedition to Antarctica, scientists discovered a species of sea squirt that may promise a new cancer treatment.

An 'unremarkable' fossil found in Antarctica 40 years ago is the continent's first dinosaur bone

More than 40 years after it was collected, an Antarctic fossil has been recognized as a far more consequential discovery than anyone first realized, according to Sci.News. The bone is now considered ...

Ozone depletion actually began decades before holes in the ozone layer were first discovered

The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

First-ever dinosaur bone from Antarctica had been sitting in a drawer for decades

A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains ever ...

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from ...

Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Scientists tried to thicken Arctic ice by pumping seawater onto it. The ice did become thicker and brighter, but there is a big catch

Scientists tested spraying seawater onto Arctic ice, which showed promising initial results. The treated ice became thicker ...
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A New Expedition Will Create 3D Digital Twins of Polar Shipwrecks Tied to Voyages of Rival Explorers Who Raced to the South Pole

Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but ...