Paleo Gondwanaland Was Full Of Lystrosaurs
An expedition studying the aftermath of one of Earth’s greatest global extinctions collected hundreds of prehistoric animal fossils from the mountains of Antarctica this past...
Category : Earth
A Chemical Detective Story: Why is Don Juan Pond So Salty?
During winter, nearly everything in Antarctica freezes solid. Except Don Juan Pond. Though only about twice the area of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and barely...
Researchers Release the Highest Resolution Antarctic Map Ever Produced
Researchers at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Polar Geospatial Center in September released the biggest and most detailed map of Antarctica ever produced....
The Dry Valleys’ Briny Deep
Hunting for groundwater has come a long way from divining rods in the days of yore. This past austral summer, scientists in Antarctica used a...
Digging For Fishies
The mountains of Antarctica may seem an unlikely place to find fish, but they were exactly what a team of paleontologists working along the edge...
Listening to Rock Music
Rocks are cracking up all over Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Though it may take hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years, the slow but...
Pumping Iron
Cold, hard iron is on the move. Particles of the ferrous metal are trickling into Antarctica’s oceans, and marine algae are gobbling it up....
Tapping Erebus’s Power
The heat given off by Antarctica’s Mount Erebus could help power instruments monitoring the volcano, giving scientists a way to study Erebus’s lava lake during...
Antarctic ice shivers from distant earthquakes
Antarctica is the most remote continent on Earth, but new research shows it is still connected to what happens in the rest of the world....
