When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

As the Falkland Islands are a mere 750 miles of the nearest point of Antarctica, it is here where many penguin species make their home. Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King ...

Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...

Global team of researchers compile comprehensive picture of the species found in world's most remote continent A pioneering new database is ...

The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...

The world's biggest iceberg -- three time the size of New York City -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.

The U.S. Endangered Species Act has been used before ... the second-largest emperor penguin colony in Antarctica. More than 10,000 chicks died in 2016 when sea ice broke up early.

While the 18 species of penguin differ, they are more alike than ... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a British territory near Antarctica, is home to a quarter of all penguins on ...