Seven days we explored among wildlife in the food chain. Typically, we made two outings each day for about two hours each, using the ship’s Zodiacs to get ashore or catch close-up views along the ...

The whales, which were nearly hunted to extinction, have returned in huge numbers to their ancestral feeding grounds off the coast of Antarctica, according to research published Thursday. In the ...

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in ...

Each year, elephant seals take a month or so to shed their worn fur for a new coat. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst Robert's Island, ANTARCTICA -- Seeing a single elephant seal is enough to make one stop ...

Turret Point, King George Island, Antarctica — At the bottom of the earth, as the summer temperature reached a balmy mid-30s, I encountered a penguin on a mission. Each of us was walking alone on a ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual levels of deaths of ...

Penguin colonies in some parts of the Antarctic have declined by more than 75% over the past half century, largely as a result of climate change, researchers say. Scientists discovered that colonies ...

During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine biologists know ...