The unexploded ordnance beneath one of Antarctica’s many penguin colonies probably poses no risk to humans working nearby. While this may seem like a crazy sentence to write, it accurately reflects ...

Meet the world's 10 largest birds—from ostriches to emperor penguins—and discover where to find these giant species in the wild.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Scientific voyage to Antarctica reveals alarming consequences of summer sea ice loss on ecosystems and wildlife.

The Nazca lived between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800 in what scientists call a tropical desert. Yet just offshore, the sea teemed ...

Learn how emperor penguins adopt a complex choreography to form a huddle to stay warm in bitter Antarctic winds.

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance helped make a Colorado grandmother's dream come true this week. She got the chance to ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Antarctica has lost a Greenland’s worth of ice, and the shocking changes in the Southern Ocean could reshape our planet’s ...

A million of anything is hard to imagine, but do your best to picture a million penguins gathered near a research station in Antarctica. These migratory creatures have come to mate, yet there’s no ...

As we wait for the new Penguin Trek to open, the Antartica realm has reopened at SeaWorld Orlando featuring a revamped ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and ...