Reddish liquid seeps from Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. (National Science Foundation/Peter Rejcek) In an arid world of ice and snow, a glacier is 'bleeding'. A deep red flow of water stains the white landscape surrounding it,

But one volcano deep in the farthest, frozen reaches of our planet marches to the beat of a slightly different drum. On Ross Island in the Ross Sea, a deep bay in Antarctica, Mount Erebus fumes about 1,

A small tail vertebra picked up on a windswept Antarctic island in 1985 did not look like much. For decades, it was treated as the remains of a marine reptile.

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot mountains, active "Ring of Fire" volcanoes and the coldest surface temperature ever recorded (a bone-chilling minus 136 degrees Fahrenheit).

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

THE mystery behind a “waterfall of blood” in Antarctica has finally been solved after more than a century. Located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a five-story deep-red waterfall that