What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...

National Taiwan University associate professor of entomology Matan Shelomi is in Antarctica studying an endemic flightless insect species. At about half a centimeter long, the Belgica Antarctica is ...

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

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 ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

In the footage, a female orca leads the lesson, demonstrating how to pull the seal off the ice by its tail, as the calves watch and learn. She lets the seal escape, and after it jumps back on the ...

Scientists in Antarctica have discovered what may be the oldest modern bird ever found. The 69 million-year-old fossil could finally put a longstanding debate about the origin of modern birds to rest.

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...