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

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 ...

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.

Developed by the Antarctic Heritage Trust and Auckland-based tech company StaplesVR, the first virtual reality experience of ...

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

Antarctica has lost an alarming amount of sea ice in the last decade, estimated to be around 2 million square kilometres, enough to cover the entire area of Greenland.

Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive.

Emperor Penguin numbers are currently robust: The global population, entirely based in Antarctica, is estimated at 270,000 to 280,000 breeding pairs. The penguins breed between April and December on ...

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 ...