With climate change melting ice and altering Earth's oceans, these Antarctic species are losing their ways of life, and very ...

Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the southernmost living mammals, are ...

Polar bears are the Arctic’s apex predator, but are there any animals that might emerge victorious in a face-off?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear still hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. Polar bears have a thick layer of fat below two layers ...

Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, measuring up to 30 meters long and weighing up to 200 tons—as much as a Boeing 787. Yet it's the sound they make, not their size, which gives their ...

A gunshot interrupts the peaceful sleep of a leopard seal, lying nonchalantly on a small piece of ice floating in the shadow of an Antarctic glacier. Researcher Diego Mojica lowers his rifle. The ...

The effects of the warming of the Earth’s climate on Antarctic lakes and seas is a matter of life or death for many plants and animals at the frozen continent. Professor Lloyd Peck, biologist with ...

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

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 ...