Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...

BBC Studios Natural History Unit is producing Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age for Apple TV+, with Tom Hiddleston set to narrate.

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

The schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

A new study finds that Neanderthals likely ate decomposing meat crawling with maggots — and the chemical evidence in their ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

Antarctica has long been a land of mystery, with its icy expanse concealing numerous secrets. From James Cook's early ...