Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Sea ice is critical habitat for a variety of animals ... Scripps researchers have found that geologic formations that allow water to flow below ice shelves are responsible for differing melt rates of ...

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

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Antarctica is one of the world’s last great ... Using an advanced detection method, we found plastic particles at concentrations up to 100 times higher than previously recorded.

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

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

The team modeled Antarctica's subglacial environment ... but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals ...