An ambush from above Arctic foxes spend hours each day roaming across the tundra during winter looking for food. This includes listening for lemmings under the snow.

In 1958, Disney released a wildlife documentary called "White Wilderness." One scene depicts a tiny, brown-furred rodent — a lemming — scuttling about in the Arctic snow. "There is an actual ...

Snowy owls in the Arctic prey primarily on lemmings, and the lemming population was high the past couple of years. Under those conditions, snowy owls respond by producing more chicks, Erickson said.

In a remote corner of Northern Norway, inside a dark coastal cave sealed off for millennia, scientists have opened a rare ...

What happens when one of the world’s most ecologically destructive symbols of excess cruises the world’s most climate-risked ...

Well, all sorts of Arctic predators eat lemmings, and the vast rodent dispersals are treated by the foxes and skuas and so forth essentially as a mobile meat market.

Arctic-nesting shorebirds have some of the longest migrations in the world, traveling from the southern parts of Africa and South America. A new study reveals that they may go the distance for ...

Forty-six types of mammals were found, as well as fish and birds. The discovery, which includes polar bear, walrus, bowhead ...

This difference probably reflects the unique coastal setting and landscape surrounding Arne Qvamgrotta, which would have supported a different kind of ecosystem. Further ancient-DNA analyses from some ...

The hardy Arctic fox spends its winters hunting alone across the frigid landscape. But these little foxes mate for life, and when spring arrives, it’s time to go home and reunite with their mate ...

In the Arctic they hunt for lemmings, but when far from home they survive on mice, rats and rabbits, as well as birds and ducks, sometimes even a great blue heron.