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

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

Antarctica’s only native insect, called Belgica antarctica, has adapted to survive in extreme cold temperatures, which could ...

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 ...

The clip shows a group of seven orcas — four adults and three calves — as they circle a seal on a tiny chunk of ice in western Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay. The lesson, which ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Ice-rated expedition ships are becoming a familiar sight in a less rugged and more well-trodden part of the world: the Mediterranean. Discover if you should book this type of ship for a less ...

It experiences obligatory diapause, a period of dormancy that is naturally induced at a fixed time in an organism's life cycle. When we think of Antarctic animals, most would mention penguins, and ...

The crab got its nickname because of its hairy chest, which prompted comparisons with the Baywatch star David Hasselhoff.

Male crabs of a species named after actor David Hasselhoff grow bigger claws than females so they can fight each other for a ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

In a recovery-bound economy, it’s probably hard to sell vacations that cost up to $12,000 per person. But for a few Prior Lake families, the experience of exploring an unusual destination ...