Researchers found microplastics in the gut of an animal on one of the most remote islands in the world Scientists have found microplastics inside the gut of a small animal on one of the world's most ...

Animals in the oceans surrounding Antarctica are under increasing threat. Fishery management organisations and governments need to do more to eliminate illegal fishing and regulate better legal ...

A new paper by University of Rhode Island post-doctoral researchers Emily Sperou and Renato Borras-Chavez published in the ...

A majority of krill fishing companies have announced their commitment to voluntarily stop harvesting the tiny crustaceans from vast areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, including around important ...

A number of invertebrate species have made some of the coldest waters on Earth their perfect home, adapting to fulfill every neighborhood need. These creatures—including sea spiders, isopods, and an ...

The British Antarctic Survey estimates that more than 50,000 individuals are missing from the beaches following the virus’s ...

Scientists had long believed the very first tetrapods—a superclass of four-limbed vertebrates including everything from humans to dinosaurs—evolved from fish and emerged from the sea in the warm, wet ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tusks of a stoutly built plant-eating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldest-known evidence that animals resorted to ...

Using risk assessments, like those used for setting occupational safety limits in the workplace, researchers determined the winners and losers of climate change in the Antarctic. They show that marine ...