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Antarctica was lined with trees 15M years ago
6-21-2012 |
15
Parts of Antarctica would have enjoyed a warmer climate ripe with greenery around 15 million years ago.
Superbugs discovered in Antarctica
1-30-2012 | 19
Björn Olsen and his team discovered the deadly bacteria in samples of seawater off the Antarctic coast.
Remains of giant dinosaur found in Antarctica
12-22-2011 | 24
The fossil remains were that of a gigantic Titanosaur that would have roamed the Earth 70m years ago.
Food shipments contaminate Antarctica
4-18-2011 | 16
Food being sent to researchers in Antarctica could be unwittingly introducing foreign species there.
Soviet surgeon removed own appendix
3-15-2011 | 28
In an incredible feat of courage and skill a surgeon in the 1960s removed his own appendix in Antarctica.
Secrets of Antarctica's fossilised forests
2-10-2011 | 16
We tend to think of Antarctica as a frozen mass but science is showing that it wasn't always so.
Clues to Antarctica space blast
3-4-2010 | 5
New research has revealed that a giant space rock may have exploded over Antarctica thousands of years ago.
100 year-old whiskey found in Antarctic
2-7-2010 | 15
Crates of whiskey from 100 years ago have been uncovered below Ernest Shackleton's hut in Antarctica.
Hidden Antarctic mountains take shape
1-27-2010 | 2
Researchers continue to piece together a view of Antarctica's hidden "Ghost Peaks" buried deep underneath the ice.
Exposing Antarctica's "ghost mountains"
12-22-2009 | 4
Under the vast ice sheets of Antarctica there exists an extensive mountain range entirely encompassed in the ice. Now an...
Antarctica was refuge in extinction event
12-5-2009 | 5
New fossil evidence has suggested that some land animals would have survived the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million...
Radar reveals world beneath Antarctica
11-14-2009 | 16
A NASA plane bristling with ice-penetrating radar and other equipment is flying over the Antarctic to help replace a dyi...
Origin of Antarctic ice revealed
6-9-2009 | 1
Scientists have used rader to peer in to the past in Antarctica's Gamburstev mountains, revealing peaks and valleys buri...
Massive ice chunks break up in Antarctica
5-4-2009 | 1
An ice shelf in western Antarctica is breaking up with huge ice chunks crumbling away and an area over 1300 square miles...
Glacier 'bleeds' proof of ancient life forms
4-20-2009 | 14
A rust-stained substance gushing from a glacier or 'Blood Falls' in Antarctica has provided scientists with proof that a...
Alp-sized mountains found in Antarctica
3-1-2009 | 0
Mountains the size of the Alps have been discovered entombed in ice under Antarctica, scientists have said following a p...
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