A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently. The idea that an entire continent covered in ice qualifies as a desert doesn ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — ...