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

The ACC carries 150 times more water around Antarctica than the flow of all the world's rivers combined. Hunted to the brink of extinction last century, the Australian fur seal is now a protected ...

mirroring the plague that killed hundreds of sea elephants and fur seals in Antarctica last year. However, after carrying out autopsies on the deceased animals, veterinarians and pathologists drew ...

Here, we analysed 42 scats of male Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) collected in late summer at Deception Island (South Shetland Islands), which allowed us to assess the presence of ...

Rising temperatures in Antarctica have seen two species of plants ... such as a declining fur seal population, the link with a warming climate is clear, says Cannone. The increase in temperature ...

The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in ...

Mass elephant seal deaths have been reported in the Antarctic region after a high level ... This week Uruguay also reported that some 2,300 fur seals and sea lions had been buried, of which ...

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine species they’ve studied so; new results show transfer from mother seals ...