In my last article, From Musandam to the Rooftop of Africa, I wrote about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. That adventure was made ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Charlie Jacobsma slapped the surface of a pool enclosure at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and scanned the water for ...

Shedd Aquarium welcomed its first beluga calf in four years, born to 35-year-old Naya. The baby is thriving under expert care ...

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.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

The colossal squid is a massive squid that lives in the deep sea surrounding Antarctica ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...