Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a ...

As climate change bears down on Antarctica, understanding why some penguins end up meandering so far from their natural ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

As Antarctic krill face unprecedented challenges in the Southern Ocean, a new project has been launched to better understand ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

This attracted tiny animals called zooplankton to ... "All that water's going to get into the ocean." This is already happening around Antarctica's coast, but it is complicated by other processes.

A young emperor penguin has captured the attention of locals and researchers by arriving at an unexpected location in Western ...

Emperor penguins are normally at home in the icy Antarctic, but earlier this month, a young penguin unexpectedly appeared ...

Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.