Roughly 190 million years ago, long before ice sheets blanketed the southernmost continent, a massive plant-eating dinosaur lumbered through what is now Antarctica. Its fossilized remains, buried deep ...

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. (Credit: Mark ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has ...

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

The fossil of a large egg dating from the time of the dinosaurs has been found for the first time on the continent of Antarctica. In addition to its large size and unique location, this discovery is ...

Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the ...

DURHAM MUSEUM, THERE’S A NEW EXHIBIT CALLED ANTARCTIC DINOSAURS. YEAH. AND JOINING US TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THE EXHIBIT IS ONE OF THE. CO CURATORS, DOCTOR NATHAN SMITH. DOCTOR SMITH, THANK YOU FOR BEING ...

An ancient bird that swam in Antarctica’s balmier waters 69 million years ago may be the earliest known waterfowl on Earth, scientists say. Birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the end-Cretaceous ...

Scientists had nicknamed it "The Thing" -- a mysterious football-sized fossil discovered in Antarctica that sat in a Chilean museum awaiting someone who could work out just what it was. The fossil ...