Antarctica

WASHINGTON — The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the flightless denizens of marine environments from frigid Antarctica to the tropical Galapagos Islands is among the wonders of the animal kingdom. Researchers on Tuesday (July 19) offered the most thorough examination to date of the history of…

Social media users are sharing an image of what appears to be a large polar ice cap and claiming it shows Antarctica as seen from space. A version with over 130,000 likes is viewable (here) and other versions are viewable (here) and (here). The image has prompted fellow users on…

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR World 17 Jul, 2022 05:32 AM2 minutes to read Vince's Cross at Scott Base under the pink and purple sky. Photo / Stuart Shaw, Fly On The Wall Images The eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga last January is…

Born in the cradle of deep space, blasting across the universe at nearly the speed of light and harnessing energy up to a million times greater than anything achieved by the world's most powerful particle accelerator, cosmic rays are atom fragments that relentlessly rain down on Earth. They get caught…

In 2018, a multidisciplinary Antarctic expedition to study, among other things, the impacts of climate change on krill populations uncovered a heartening surprise about one of the crustacean’s prime predators: fin whales. Helicopters dispatched from aboard the research ship spied 100 groups of the cetaceans, while on-deck observers spotted groups…

Most telescopes for scientific research fall into two categories: ground-based telescopes, which either consist of one single large dish like the 1,640-foot Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in China or multiple dishes linked into an array like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile; or space-based telescopes, which can orbit either…

Aerial surveys have found groups of up to 150 fin whales feeding near Antarctica, a sign that populations have bounced back since since the 1976 ban on hunting these whales Life 7 July 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu A fin whale near Elephant Island, Antarctica Dan Beecham Large groups of…

It may be telling that Pavlo Panasyuk, captain of Ukraine’s new polar research vessel, sailed into West Antarctica in late March. This was just weeks after Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance had been found nearby — within waters opened up by record-low sea ice. Hunting down the elusive wreck more than…

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Antarctica has long been a land of mystery and heroic feats made famous by the explorations of James Ross and Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton.   A key piece of the puzzle for understanding global continental evolution, Antarctica is home to examples that define the spectrum of Earth's volcanic…