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

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

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

The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...

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

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

South Georgia's beaches and coves serve as critical feeding grounds for penguins ... young animals to perish. Climate change may not have caused the birth of A23a—it calved from Antarctica's ...

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton ...

How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...