A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious continent.

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains ...

A study of 26 individuals who stayed at the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica for six months in 2018 reveals that living on the frozen continent can change people’s accents. Not all 26 were ...

We found that Antarctic mosses create their own miniature climates, and these can vary dramatically in a single square metre. Mosses living just centimetres apart can differ by 15°C in their daily ...

The lives of some animals are very short, such as mayflies which generally live for just one day. On the other side of the spectrum are animals with extraordinarily long lives. One example of this is ...

CAPE DENISION, Antarctica (Reuters Life!) - Living in freezing isolation in Antarctica is a test of endurance for even the toughest of adventurers with veterans to the South Pole convinced that a ...