The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) began forming during the Eocene-Oligocene transition around 34 million years ago, as global temperatures plummeted and CO2 levels dropped below a critical ...

New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California. PaleoBios 15(1-4): 1-80. Long, D.J. 1992. Sharks from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal ...

An environmental group is helping pork producers focus on sustainability. Sara Crawford, senior vice president of sustainability for Eocene, says they’ve been working with the National Pork Board ...

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

"When we plan something for the long term, it means that we are not going to give up." Space2Sea Antarctica marks the inaugural voyage in a series produced by FUTURE of SPACE (FoS). This ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a human-made pyramid. A mountain that's hidden in a sea of snow in Antarctica looks strikingly like an ancient Egyptian pyramid when viewed from above.

During the late Eocene and early Oligocene epochs, sea levels dropped as glaciers formed in Antarctica, narrowing the oceanic gap between continents. This period also saw stronger ocean currents ...

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica. Working in extreme conditions of -35 degree C, the team ...

43 years ago, on January 9, 1982, India hoisted its flag in Antarctica in a top-secret mission, marking its entry into polar exploration. This historic expedition laid the foundation for Dakshin ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...