East Antarctica’s tectonic plate probably broke off of the supercontinent about 80 million years ago, with today’s ice sheet forming 34 million years ago. Today, the researchers write, the flat ...

The schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

A trove of ancient whale bones was recently discovered beneath a melting Arctic glacier. The centuries-old skeletal remains were found during an expedition on Wilczek Island, part of a Russian ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict sea-level rise. Scientists have identified remnants of ancient landscapes in East Antarc ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...