Cold-climate animals are remarkably adaptable creatures, specialized for survival in some of the harshest temperatures in our ...

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and that’s a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. But given that the four-member Fram2 crew is not only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The colony of thick-billed murres — also referred to as the 'penguins of the North' — at Cape Parry in the N.W.T. is one of the ...

Climate change has caused massive problems for animals living in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. With ice sheets melting at ...

Just north of the Antarctic Peninsula, there’s a small, ice-covered island shaped like an elephant’s head. Each year, despite brutal winds and a landscape of crags, cliffs, and glaciers, hundreds of ...

Macaroni penguin in huge colony with snowy mountain in the background, blue sky, South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica© MZPHOTO.CZ/Shutterstock.com In one of the most remote and harsh environments on ...

It is most definitely not true! Polar bears are inhabitants of the Arctic. Introduction of polar bears to the Antarctic would have dire consequences for the penguin populations of Antarctica. Penguins ...

Penguins at the St. Louis Zoo enjoyed a snow day and took advantage of it to visit some polar and grizzly bears. The eight penguins, native to the Antarctic, were allowed to stroll through the zoo ...