Antarctic skull sheds light on ancient birds 69 million years ago
Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...
First bird to roam Earth after dinosaurs were killed by asteroid revealed and it’s a relative of much-loved species
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
UK scientists plan to monitor krill from space as species threatened by warming
WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...
World's largest iceberg is falling apart! Huge TRILLION-tonne 'megaberg' that is twice the size of Greater London has lost an enormous chunk, satellite images reveal
The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...
30 Moments In History That Got Ghosted By Humanity
We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...
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First major chunk breaks off world's biggest iceberg
An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be ...
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Ernest Shackleton’s Famous Job Ad, ‘Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey,’ Is Probably a Myth
Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...
This Is The Only African Airport Offering Flights To All Inhabited Continents
As discussed, Johannesburg is the only African airport with nonstop scheduled passenger flights to all six inhabited ...
What we know about iceberg A23a and its collision course with a remote British island
The world’s largest iceberg is heading towards a remote British island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean and could ...
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'White wall' of ice drifts toward remote penguin haven
The world's largest iceberg -- a behemoth more than twice the size of London -- is drifting toward a remote island where ...
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Mega-iceberg drifts towards Antarctic penguin island
Paris (AFP) – The world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards ... The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision ...