Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, scientists have re-created the habitat of "polar dinosaurs," using these ...

Scientists have recreated the ancient habitat of dinosaurs that lived near the Antarctic Circle about 120 million years ago, offering a vivid glimpse into a lost world where cool-temperate forests ...

American physician Frederick Cook, who accompanied the 1898-1899 Belgica expedition, the first group known to spend the winter within the Antarctic Circle, wrote in helpless terms of being ...

By Laura Paddison, CNN Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for the second time in two years, with some scientists alarmed that dramatic drops are a signal the climate crisis may now be ...

Last week two shipborne expeditions prowled among the antarctic icebergs. In the Amundsen Sea, east of Little America, the 6,500-ton U.S. Navy icebreaker Atka, with 250 men aboard, headed south ...

Researchers isolated antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus saprophyticus from the Southern Ocean. The bacteria showed resistance to multiple antibiotics, including Azithromycin and Cefixime, ...

South of the Antarctic Circle In good weather, your ship may cross the Antarctic Circle, venturing south to Detaille Island, Pourquoi Pas Island ...

The Arctic Circle is located about 23.5 degrees south of the North Pole at 66.5 degrees north latitude. Morning sky: Saturn rises around 2 a.m. in early June and around midnight in late June.It ...

You can see on this diagram, all areas including the Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and Antarctic Circle receive about 12 hours of daylight. WTKR News 3.

While most Quad-Citians prepare for the holidays in the United States, others are going far, far from the North Pole. Sarah Nuernberger, 15, will spend Christmas in Antarctica, in the Antarctic ...

It hit a record high for winter sea ice extent in 2014 when it reached 7.76 million square miles, which seemed to support the idea that the Antarctic may be relatively insulated from global ...