The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions ...

We know what highway we’re taking the next time we visit Antarctica — the one that a group of penguins travel each and every day. Video of the penguins traveling down the self-made “highway ...