Category : The Biological World

The penguin colonies of the Ross Sea are in flux, with one colony in steep decline while the populations at other colonies in the region...

Lake Vida isn’t a particularly accommodating place to live. Oxygen is completely absent and what little liquid water exists in this frozen block of ice...

A decline in the abundance of krill, a food favored by two species of penguins, is the most likely cause for why the seabird populations...

Scientists reported last week in the online science journal PLoS ONE that they observed a super-aggregation of more than 300 humpback whales gorging on the...

In a paper recently published in the journal Polar Biology, researchers David Ainley and Grant Ballard suggest Adélie and emperor penguins make choices about foraging...

Collecting flowers to determine what bugs might be present would seem to be a pretty straightforward research project. But sampling frost flowers during the spring...

A pair of recently-published companion studies help clarify how juvenile Antarctic krill survive the long winter season....

A little worm that inhabits organically enriched sediment in the subfreezing waters of Antarctica may help shed light on how all organisms interact with their...

The transition from one season to the next is associated with all sorts of changes, from budding flowers and bothersome allergies to longer days and...

New research published by NOAA scientists suggests a type of Antarctic killer whale migrates north not necessarily to breed or forage but to regenerate skin...