Imagine stepping onto the icy shores of ancient Antarctica—not to see today’s tuxedoed, knee-high Emperor penguins, but to stare up in awe at penguins the size of grown men. These prehistoric ...

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

With four eyes, long legs and claws, a new species of sea spider was discovered lurking in the frosty depths of Antarctica. Researchers happened upon the creature, known as the Austropallene ...

In the big picture, all oceans are experiencing acidification, but not necessarily equally. For example, the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica is known to have among the highest levels of ...

A research robot is living with a penguin colony in Antarctica 00:46. Among a colony of black and white penguins with bright orange beaks in Antarctica is one animal that stands boldly apart from ...

In the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge (Anoxycalyx joubini). Though aging the individual animals is troublesome, they may be ...

Antarctica and Australia are currently the only continents this avian influenza has yet to reach—as far as scientists can tell. For Antarctica in particular, the virus may simply be spreading ...

How Insects, Smallest Animals Survive Antarctica In Antarctica's, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science.

Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab ...