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

The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered – and ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep ...

Credit_PNRA:IPEV In a thrilling milestone for the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, ancient Antarctic ice has arrived at the ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Scientists studying an ice core extracted from Antarctica, which had preserved the planet's climate history going back nearly 70,000 years, have discovered a link between ...

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth’s surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically ...

Our geographers have discovered the remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East ...