Antarctica

February 12, 2025 2 min read Molted penguin feathers record mercury infiltrating Antarctica’s food web By Gayoung Lee edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Gentoo penguins have a wide geographic range, making them good targets for follow-up research. David Merron Photography/Getty Images When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D.…

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It's easy to mistake the earth beneath our feet as being still and unchanging — but that couldn't be further from the truth. In this week's science news we've seen Earth's crust peeling away under the Sierra Nevada mountains , mimicking the process that creates new continents. Looking east, an…

Killer Whales Teach Young To Hunt - YouTube Watch On Stunning new footage captures the moment adult orcas carefully teach their calves how to hunt, demonstrating how to push a seal off a bit of ice before getting the young to give it a go themselves. The clip shows a…

Author of the article: Washington Post Kasha Patel, The Washington Post Published Feb 06, 2025  •  4 minute read This handout satellite photograph taken by the NASA satellite between January 12, 2025 and January 31, 2025 and released by NASA on January 31, 2025, shows the A23a iceberg (CR) drifting…

Antarctica harbors many distinctive features of life, yet much about the diversity and functioning of Antarctica’s life remains unknown. Evolutionary histories and functional ecology are well understood only for vertebrates, whereas research on ...Read More

Antarctica is a vital component of Earth’s climate system, influencing global sea level, ocean circulation, and planetary albedo. Major knowledge gaps in critical processes—spanning the atmosphere, ocean, ice sheets, underlying beds, ice shelves, and sea ...Read More

Paleontologists from the United States and Australia have discovered and described a new, nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a foot-propelled diver bird species that lived in Antarctica during the latest Cretaceous, between 69.2 and 68.4 million years ago. The new fossil provides insight into the bird’s feeding ecology and exhibits…

The effective pressure under the Antarctic ice sheet describes how easily the ice flows atop the layer of water separating the ice from the bedrock. The new maps combine the bed topography, ice thickness, subglacial hydrology and base melt. (Image credit: Shivani Ehrenfeucht et al., 2024; CC-BY-NC-ND) An extensive model…

The Late Cretaceous modern bird, Vegavis iaai, diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. © Mark Witton With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might…