New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...

A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia published Thursday reveals a larger and more robust population than ...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

Adélie penguins have unknowingly documented the changing climate of Antarctica—not in journals or fossils, but through their ...

Hapag Lloyd Cruises' HANSEATIC inspiration recently completed an Antarctic semi-circumnavigation - a once-in-a-lifetime ...

Today, elephant seals are uncommon visitors to the Antarctic continent, and breed on subantarctic islands including Macquarie ...

Researchers conclude that Adélie penguins took over the Antarctic habits of seals when sea ice started to expand around 1,400 ...

Archaeologists amassed over 100 sediment samples in Antarctica to trace the history of Adélie penguins 6,000 years into the ...

Thanks to its strong currents and upwelling of deep, cold waters, the Southern Ocean teems with nutrients and supports a great abundance of life, from microscopic algae to krill, fish, seals, whales, ...

The vast ice fields of barren whiteness stretch toward the horizon, creating one of the most isolated environments on the ...