In this article on wired.com, Andrew Blum has provided profiles of 6 Antarctic research stations; Princess Elisabeth Station (Germany), Concordia Station (France and Italy), Neumayer Station (Germany), Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (USA), Halley Station (UK) and Sanae Station (South Africa).
Scientific research stations can be interesting settings for cinema and fiction with scientific subject matter.
In 2004, paleontologists digging in the Canadian Arctic unearthed the
fossil of a 375-million-year-old creature named Tiktaalik that possessed
both the scales of a fish and the sturdy, jointed limb bones of a land
animal—and this single, perfect transitional fossil bridged the
evolutionary gap between water and land, showing the exact moment our
distant ancestors began to crawl out of the sea.
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In 1999, three paleontologists made a decision that would, five years
later, lead them to one of the most important fossil discoveries of the
twenty-firs...
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