"Ancient sedimentary DNA recovered from Adelie penguin colonies allowed us to detect the presence of other local species through time, including a range of birds, seals and invertebrates," said lead ...

Mass elephant seal deaths have been reported in the Antarctic region after a high level of mortality has been detected among elephant seal pups at three sites around South Georgia. Animals have ...

Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross ...

Planes routinely fly over the Arctic region, heading from one continent to another, but it's rare for one to fly over ...

Studies of ancient DNA have tended to focus on frozen land in the northern hemisphere, where woolly mammoths and bison roamed ...

The iceberg A23a has run aground in the shallow waters off of South Georgia, a remote British territory in the Southern ...

A man at a beach near Gordon's Bay in the Western Cape shared a video of a large elephant seal making its way to shore. Some people thought the clip was fake.

Although the continent of Antarctica is usually described as a hostile, frozen wilderness, surprisingly unique animals exist that have adapted to its extreme conditions. Indeed, although this is a ...

Antarctica is the coldest ... Scientists also study the wildlife like penguins, elephant seals and seaweed.

For over two centuries, marine mammals in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic were extensively hunted, pushing fur seals, elephant seals, humpback whales, and blue whales to the brink of extinction.