The Bering Strait between Eurasia and North America was not always a waterway. 18,000 years ago, at the the peak of the last ice age, the area was open and connected the two continents. But the actually arctic area didn’t look very arctic either despite the...
Emperor penguins are considered the icons of Antarctica. No other penguin species stris emotions as strongly as this largest penguin species, not least thanks to its special coloration. The black back and the white belly are outstanding and are used for camouflage...
A researcher is looking for a 200 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint. During an Antarctic expedition, researchers in northern Victorialand discovered a 200-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint. It was a roughly hand-sized trace of an animal from...
Cracks in the floating ice tongue of the Petermann Glacier in the far north-west of Greenland indicate a further demolition of a large iceberg. As glaciologists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) report in a new...