A wildlife photographer appears to have captured the first images of a two creatures beneath the ocean’s surface. The animal, ...

Antarctic fish cells imaged alive near 32°F show busy, linked mitochondria and enlarged lysosomes, clues to how polar fish ...

What can life evolve into after a million years of total darkness, crushing pressure and isolation?

Whether it’s gushing from a bumped nose or pooling atop a pricked finger, our blood is some hue of red. But red-bloodedness isn’t universal in the animal kingdom. In some creatures, the vital fluid is ...

A penguin spreads its long wings beneath the transparent water surface, turning its face toward us from just nearby. The ...

Krill, a tiny shrimp-like creature at the bottom of the Antarctic food chain, has found itself at the centre of international talks over conservation. Whales and penguins feed on it, and are the ...

There are surprisingly many things we don't pay attention to in our daily lives that are actually quite surprising once you ...

Antarctica facts reveal red waterfalls, hidden lakes, white-blooded fish, singing ice, a lava lake, and other real phenomena ...

Green snow algae on the Antarctic Peninsula held ten times the phosphate of red snow, and penguin guano is the likely source ...

A global boycott of Antarctic krill products is gathering support. As a Norwegian, I want my country – the world’s largest ...

Tucked away on the back page of the Oct. 26, 1906, edition of The Morning Astorian were anecdotal notes about the goings-on ...

Chemicals used in LCD and OLED screens have been found in remote Arctic, Antarctic, and Tibetan Plateau soils, with levels ...