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Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the ...

Researchers analyzing ancient seafloor sediments discovered that West Antarctica's ice sheet has collapsed and regrown ...

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Romanian climber Adrian Ahriţculesei has conquered Mount Vinson (4,892 meters), the highest peak in Antarctica. The feat is ...

Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023. Several climate monitoring ...

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Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...