Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the continent today, according to a new study.

In a new study, they announced their findings: Ancient riverbeds beneath Antarctica control the behavior of the ice sheet above them. Left, a bedmap of the Eastern Antarctic coast.

According to Manfroi, both Atacama and Antarctica contain "incredible, intact fossils of the same araucaria trees" along with evidence of paleofires and ancient forests.

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more than 10 million square kilometers wide, has long concealed a forgotten ...

Antarctica just delivered a time capsule to a chilly room in Cambridge: cylinders of ancient ice that may carry a continuous ...

A new study has revealed a vast network of 332 submarine canyons along Antarctica 's coastline, a number five times larger ...