A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking ...

As research clearly shows that animals have rich cultural traditions and active minds, Philippa Brakes stresses how vital it ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Researchers measured the amount of nitrogen and carbon in the whiskers, which tells them the kinds of animals the leopard seals have eaten in the past few years. Both nitrogen and carbon ...

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This long-term focus on specific prey can have powerful ecological consequences. At Cape Shirreff, Antarctica, in the ...

Antarctica appears sparse. Nothing but white ice, glaciers and harsh conditions that only a few animals have adapted to ...

Researchers documented how cruise ship anchors can harm some of the oldest species of marine life in Antarctica.

They’re in a race against time to understand and protect the marine life that can cope with sub-zero temperatures, before it disappears. It’s estimated there are 20,000 species on the sea bed ...

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...

William Shatner is recounting the time he spoke with a 'diplomatic pooper' penguin while on an expedition in Antarctica with Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'He exploded poop.' ...