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 ...

Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside many animals' guts and in nearly all of the world's environments, from hot, geothermal vents to the cold ...

This paper outlines an investigation into the rights of individual animals belonging to species that live in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, home to many species of mammals, birds, finfish, ...

In 2011, Chilean scientists exploring Antarctica found a strange, deflated, football-shaped object on Seymour Island and took ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

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 ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery in Antarctica: the carcasses of tiny animals were found in a lake that sits deep beneath one kilometer (0.6 miles) of Antarctic ice. The scientists were ...

Much to their surprise, scientists in Antarctica have uncovered what appear to be remnants of tiny animals in mud dredged from a lake that has been covered by a thick mantle of ice for thousands of ...

When you go surfing, you might expect to encounter seagulls, fish or maybe even a shark. So when surfers on an Australian beach spotted an enormous bird emerge from the waves last month, they were ...

If you were a marine animal that just sat and waited for food to drift by, you might not choose to live in a place where little life is believed to exist. Nonetheless, such critters have recently been ...

Two hundred years ago, on Nov. 17, Connecticut ship captain Nathaniel Palmer spotted the Antarctic continent, one of three parties to do so in 1820. Unlike explorers Edward Bransfield and Fabian von ...