What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...

A groundbreaking new map offers an unprecedented glimpse beneath the vast ice sheets of Antarctica, revealing a landscape that has been hidden for millions of years. This detailed visualization, a ...

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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 — ...

Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map that outlines proposed ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

A member of the Lynch Lab with a group of penguins in Antarctica. Credit: The Lynch Lab If you’re lucky enough to visit Antarctica, you’ll probably aim to snag a classic photo—a colony of penguins, ...