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This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur

An artist’s interpretation of the birth of a baby mosasaur.

This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur

Penguin Poop Makes So Much Laughing Gas That Scientists Studying It Go ‘Completely Cuckoo’

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Penguin Poop Makes So Much Laughing Gas That Scientists Studying It Go ‘Completely Cuckoo’

Death at the South Pole: The Mystery of Antarctica's Unsolved Poisoning Case

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica

Death at the South Pole: The Mystery of Antarctica's Unsolved Poisoning Case

Where Does All the Human Poop in Antarctica End Up?

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Where Does All the Human Poop in Antarctica End Up?

Listen to the Eerie Song of Antarctica's Largest Ice Shelf

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There Could Be Hundreds of Frozen Corpses Buried Beneath Antarctica's Snow and Ice

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Want to Live in Antarctica? Better Schedule an Appendectomy

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A Previously Unknown Diary From the Doomed Endurance Just Showed Up on Antiques Roadshow

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1916

Employees at Antarctica's McMurdo Station Are Throwing a Party for Pride Month

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Scientists Have Discovered Massive Canyons Beneath Antarctica's Ice Sheets

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Poop Visible From Space Helped Scientists Find a Remote 'Supercolony' of Penguins

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King Penguin Populations Could Shrink By 70 Percent in 80 Years, Thanks to Climate Change

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The Plucky Teenage Stowaway Aboard the First American Expedition to Antarctica

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Mount Jackson Loses Spot as UK's Tallest Mountain After Satellite Reveals Measurement Error

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New Images of the Massive Iceberg That Broke Off From Antarctica This Summer

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9 Secrets of Antarctic Scientists

A scientist monitors one of the world's largest Adélie penguin colonies near Cape Crozier, Antarctica.