The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern -- but no one knew why. A new study lays out the first concrete explanation for this phenomenon. Researchers found two major culprits: ocean ...

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at the South Pole. In fact, the Antarctic is the only place on Earth where ...

Although Earth’s two hemispheres lie on opposite sides of the planet and differ in many ways, they share a peculiar commonality—or at least they used to. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...

Researchers are fiercely debating whether claims about the origins of mammals result from a bias toward Northern Hemisphere fossil sites. Share full article The jawbone of Ambondro mahabo, a species ...