Antarctica is famously an icy wasteland in the modern day, but far in the past, dinosaurs once roamed a very different, ...

Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside many animals' guts and in nearly all of the world's environments, from hot, geothermal vents to the cold ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. The ozone hole over Antarctica grows and closes up again each year – ...

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the largest animal on the planet, but it is critically ...

A robot found over 1,000 organized fish nests under Antarctic ice, revealing geometric breeding patterns and new clues about ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

If you were a marine animal that just sat and waited for food to drift by, you might not choose to live in a place where little life is believed to exist. Nonetheless, such critters have recently been ...

Two hundred years ago, on Nov. 17, Connecticut ship captain Nathaniel Palmer spotted the Antarctic continent, one of three parties to do so in 1820. Unlike explorers Edward Bransfield and Fabian von ...

It was only a matter of time before human-caused climate change and pollution reached even the most isolated continent on the planet. As global temperature rises, Antarctica's pristine landscape is ...

Scientists were surprised to find an area deep underneath Antarctica's ice shelves teeming with life. Researchers have reported findings from an exploratory project in which two holes were drilled ...