A growing king penguin colony in southern Chile is challenging long-held assumptions about where the species can successfully ...

Maxing out at around 200 tons, the blue whale is not only the largest animal on the planet, it is also the largest animal ...

And the adventure's not over ...

When most people imagine scientists discovering new species, they probably still picture an expedition into the unknown. A ...

Gentoo penguins were thought to be a standalone species, but a new study says there are four distinct species — and it could lead to better conservation plans.

A newly discovered raptor-like dinosaur from Patagonia is changing how scientists think about ancient predators. Named Kank australis, the 70-million-year-old dinosaur appears to have hunted fish much ...

If you've driven by a local river or lake recently, your car is probably covered in the corpses of these swarming pests.

China and Russia have been accused of blocking global efforts to protect the emperor penguin, amid concerns the species could become extinct by the end of the century. The annual meeting of Antarctic ...

Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

"The brain of Koharalepis was similar to those of the fishes that straddle the vertebrate water-to-land transition." ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

There are multiple species to be seen, including southern right whales along with much rarer sightings of Bryde's whales, ...