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Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could lose its ice shelf this year, scientists warn

Fractures racing across Antarctica’s Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf are severing its last structural anchor to a submarine ridge, ...

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 ...

Antarctica Froze Millions of Years Before the Arctic. We May Finally Know Why

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

Fossil found tucked away in a drawer turns out to be first dinosaur bone from Antarctica

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...
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Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil sat unnoticed for 40 years before a scientist spotted it

The marine rock around the fossil also suggests the animal likely ended up at sea after it died.
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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 ...

West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

Scientists uncover why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

Antarctica froze 25 million years before the Arctic, and scientists now think the answer was hidden beneath the continent

For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...
Discover Magazine

Ancient Mantle Waves Inside Earth May Have Lifted Antarctica's Mountains Before It Froze Over

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...
ZME Science

Why Antarctica Froze 25 Million Years Before the Arctic Even Though They’re Both at the Poles

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

In Antarctica, a frozen vault holds the secrets of the world’s vanishing glaciers

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.