The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

The landscape has likely been buried beneath the ice for up to 34 million years. Global warming could reveal an ancient river landscape that has been preserved underneath the East Antarctic Ice ...

The ice above the ancient landscape measures about 1.4-1.9 miles (2.2 km to 3 km) thick, according to study co-leader Neil Ross, a professor of polar science and environmental geophysics at ...

Antarctic's ice sheet is melting 6 times faster than in 1979 03:23. Scientists revealed Tuesday that they had discovered a vast, hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers that ...

Below the Antarctic ice lies an "unmodified" landscape that has been preserved "despite millions of years of ice cover," according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications ...

The research team, led by Durham University, UK, used satellite data and radio-echo sounding techniques to map a 32,000 km2 area of land underneath the vast ice sheet. They discovered a landscape ...