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Fault-controlled basins and interpreted structural frame in the newly identified EAFBP. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-026-01991-6

Giant fan-shaped geological structure discovered beneath East Antarctica

July 16, 2026

Allan Hills, 2022-2023. Credit: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX

Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth

A pink granite boulder next to a yellow notebook for scale. Credit: Jo Johnson, BAS

Hidden giant granite discovered beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet

False colour Landsat 8 satellite image of Saunders Island and the lava lake within the crater of Mount Michael (image acquired 31/01/2018). Inset map shows the location of Saunders Island.

Discovery of rare lava lake on remote sub-Antarctic island

Polynya

Uncovering Polynya : Research unravels 43-year-old mystery in deep Antarctica

Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula

May 15, 2013

Sediment Cores From Russian Lake Hint At A Future Ice-free Arctic

May 10, 2013

Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes Discovered in the Southern Ocean

April 15, 2013

Recent Antarctic Climate, Glacier Changes at the ‘Upper Bound’ of Normal

April 15, 2013

Antarctica’s First Whale Skeleton Found With Nine New Deep-Sea Species

March 25, 2013

The Making of Antarctica’s Hidden Fjords

March 11, 2013

Antarctic Scientists Discover 18-Kilogram Meteorite

March 1, 2013

Studying Ice Cores from West Antarctica

February 9, 2013

Large Methane Reservoirs Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet, Study Suggests

August 29, 2012

Origins of Antarctica’s Ice-Covered Mountains Unraveled

November 17, 2011

Tohoku tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica

September 17, 2011

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Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate the feather sheaths. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: Kaye et al. 2020.

Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight

December 17, 2020

Caribbean animals

Caribbean islands reveal a ‘lost world’ of ancient mammals

November 7, 2017

What is the longest river in the world?

February 3, 2015

Retreat of the ice followed by millennia of methane release

May 14, 2016

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Tide-triggered tremors give clues for earthquake prediction

Earth Observatory of Singapore show that slow fault movements may indicate...

Antarctic volcano that just doesn’t make any sense

Scanning electron microscope images of tiny, ancient planktonic foraminifera, recovered from Gubbio, Italy. Credit: Gabriella Kitch

Malformed seashells, ancient sediment provide clues about Earth’s past