New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

Discover how lichens grow on trees, rocks, and gravestones, their vital role in ecosystems, and tips for spotting them in ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

The researchers further demonstrated that the ammonia kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction. Out at sea, tiny plantlike ...

In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: ...

Scorpions live on every continent in the world except for Antarctica. Most can be found in arid deserts, but others thrive in ...

Scientists have recreated the ancient habitat of dinosaurs that lived near the Antarctic Circle about 120 million years ago, ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, "Marie Curie" fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back by 35 million years. The team’s conclusions also mean that the split ...