Scientists Just Found The Oldest Modern Bird Buried in the Antarctic Ice
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
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Antarctica Yields Intact Skull — An Ancestor of Today’s Waterfowl That Survived ...
The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
Antarctic expedition confirms the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in ...
The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...
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Worst avian flu crisis ever recorded spreads across Antarctica
The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...
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Antarctica’s only native insect’s unique survival mechanism
What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...
Antarctic midge survives extreme cold with unique dormancy strategies
Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
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The Unique Survival Mechanism of Antarctica’s Native Insect
How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...
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Antarctica's only native insect's unique survival mechanism
What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment. Picture an ...