In the middle of an active volcano at the bottom of the world, dozens of fur seals bask in blowing wet snow. They are mostly ...

Southern elephant seals are the "canary in the coal mine" for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may ...

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes ...

In the middle of an active volcano at the bottom of the world, dozens of fur seals bask in blowing ... "We know that the Antarctic ice sheet is potentially unstable and could provide larger ...

Several million penguins live in the area along with several species of albatross, elephant seals and fur seals, all of which ...

It also feeds the gentoo penguins, macaroni penguins, chinstrap penguins and the fur seals," says Martin Collins, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey, and former head of the South ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Stanford researchers have combined machine learning with high-resolution satellite and airplane observations to understand ...

Scientists discovered that polar bear fur’s oily coating prevents ice from sticking, thanks to a unique mix of lipids. This ...