Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...

Scientists mapped 332 submarine canyons under Antarctica, revealing how they shape ocean flow, ice melt, and global sea level ...

Magellanic penguins use ocean currents and tides to travel efficiently and forage during their long swim home.

Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...

Thousands of penguins make their home on Deception Island, an active volcano in Antarctica, defying the odds in one of ...

Brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have detailed temporary reductions in gray matter following prolonged ...

A study published in ‘Nature’ finds that the fecal waste these animals generously spread around the area releases ammonia, a ...

Grist reports that penguin guano in Antarctica may help cool the region by forming clouds through ammonia release, but ...

Scientists spotted a massive, dark hole looking down at Antarctica from space in 2016 and again in 2017. This huge gap had opened up in the sea ice in the ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more animal news, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. Levick describes in his zoological notes the reciprocal homosexual mountings ...

A lucky handful of Mawson expeditioners visited the Taylor Glacier emperor penguin colony in July, to collect photos for the annual population ...

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...