In the frozen world of Antarctica, one tiny insect has mastered the art of survival. The Antarctic midge, the only insect ...

If you're flexible enough to travel on a one-way cruise – and have extra time to explore far-flung locales along the way – ...

You’d think tracking the world’s largest living fish would be simple. But despite whale sharks having roamed the oceans for ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Despite advances in modern technology, these mysterious ancient artefacts continue to baffle and intrigue experts.

In the Antarctic, daily sea ice extent fell below the long-term average after a brief period of above-average daily extents, ending the month just above the lowest 25 percent of ice extents for the ...

Buried beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheets lies Lake Vostok, a hidden world that has been isolated for 15 million years.

For over a century, scientists were baffled by Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls, where deep red water flows from a glacier, ...

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.

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

I can tell you this,” declared our host this past week, as we gazed into our glasses at a “Mystery Wine” as part of a blind ...