Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems ...

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A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for its first scientific voyage in March. They are taking part in the Denman ...

Scientists have captured the first confirmed footage of the elusive colossal squid in its natural environment 100 years after the marine creature was first identified and named, according to the ...

In January, the expedition recorded the first confirmed footage of the glacial glass squid, which was spotted in the Bellingshausen Sea near Antarctica ... The real-life magic Disney is working to ...

It also funds research and maintains facilities in Antarctica. Well, it did do that, anyway. The Trump administration's cuts have slowed operations in Antarctica to a crawl. Scientists warn that ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of ... much life – and such big life – was unanticipated, Thurber said. "We would expect there to be an animal community that is more ...

The North Shore Animal League's 2025 Tour For Life will span 67 cities and 39 states, and on Sunday, it made a stop in western Pennsylvania at Animal Friends in Ohio Township. Jeanette Murray came ...

In Antarctica's freezing depths ... Freezing can extend the life of this animal. In fact, one tardigrade species known as Acutuncus antarcticus was frozen at -20°C and defrosted 30 years later ...