The renewable energy system ensures stable power in Antarctica’s extreme conditions, and is estimated to cut fossil fuel use ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current acts as a kind of “ocean conveyor belt” shifting immense columns of water through the ...

off the coast of Western Antarctica. They named it 'Vegavis iaai,' or "Vega bird" in Latin. The fossil's discoverers said it was a waterfowl, a broad order encompassing everything from geese to loons.

A mosasaur may have laid this football-size egg 68 million years ago.

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl. A fossil unearthed in Antarctica has ...

The newly identified fossils were found in what were the banks of a large river, like the modern-day Ganges or Amazon, Kotevski told Live Science in an email. Southern Australia was close enough to ...

Under the Antarctica, Germany recently found "something" that could replace all of the world's fuels. Generating solar ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai. This duck-sized bird had a mixture of modern and ancient features ...

Over 100 million years ago, Australia's dinosaurs shared links with South America's due to the continents' connection through Antarctica. Fossils reveal the presence of distinct theropods such as ...