New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most ...

View of Gentoo penguins in Cuverville Island, in the western Antarctic peninsula on March 04, 2016. The harshness of the elements defines life at the Poles. But for the animals who inhabit these icy ...

Machine learning cuts image analysis time from hours to seconds, allowing real-time discoveries in Antarctica, says British ...

Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the southernmost living mammals, are ...

New underwater footage reveals how anchors and chains from ships are damaging the Antarctic seafloor and its marine life.

Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside many animals' guts and in nearly all of the world's environments, from hot, geothermal vents to the cold ...

The world’s latest record-high temperatures are increasingly putting Antarctica’s role in regulating global climate and ocean currents at risk. But so far, most signs indicate that the continent has ...

In the frigid ocean surrounding Antarctica, the water boils over as seabirds dive from above and marine animals like seals ...

Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted ...