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First dinosaur bone from Antarctica was unnoticed for 40 years

The British Antarctic Survey has uncovered a tail vertebra belonging to a Titanosaur

The Independent UK · Jun 29

Tiny Antarctic sea creature could be key to treating melanoma, researchers say

Underwater expedition by Florida-based team supports possible therapeutic use of bacterial toxins from sea squirts

The Guardian - US · Jun 29

Antarctica's oldest known dinosaur fossil was hiding in a museum drawer for 40 years

For years, it sat unnoticed among thousands of geological specimens, catalogued and stored without attracting much attention. The fossil had been collected during an expedition to Antarctica in the mid-1980s and then quietly placed within a museum collection, where it remained for nearly four decades.

The Times of India · Jun 29

Antarctica is in the middle of winter right now. Scientists are worried about a France-sized stretch of ocean where ice is failing to form

Winter is the season when Antarctica's frozen edge usually expands. This year, one part of the continent is doing the opposite. Scientists have identified a vast stretch of ocean that remains largely ice-free despite being deep into the Antarctic winter, while temperatures in parts of the region recently climbed more…

The Economic Times · Jun 18

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18

'Sobering': flu strain kills thousands of seal pups

A devastating strain of bird flu has wiped out more than 75 per cent of the southern elephant seal pup population on a remote sub-Antarctic island.

AAP · Jun 18

More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak

Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth

The Guardian - AU · Jun 18

The continent that keeps the dead: Antarctica’s most disturbing unsolved disappearances and frozen expedition mysteries

Antarctica tends to be described in numbers first. Temperatures that fall far below what most instruments are built for, wind that can strip visibility down to nothing, distances that flatten judgment. It is also a place where people still go to work, to measure ice, to run stations, to move…

The Times of India · Jun 18

The Antarctic bacterium that could be key to new cancer treatments

Antarctica’s isolation has led to highly specialised organisms, scientists say

The Independent UK · Jun 17

Levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in dolphins and whales are rising globally

Whales and dolphins inhabit some of the largest and seemingly most pristine environments on Earth, from tropical coastlines to Antarctic waters. Yet even they cannot escape PFAS – persistent “forever chemicals” that leak from our homes, factories and waterways into the sea.

The Conversation · Jun 17