Antarctica is largely inhospitable to land animals – 99% of the continent is covered in snow and ice. With the exception of man – a non-native species – the biggest terrestrial animal is a ...

National Geographic photographer Michaela Skovranova captures an Antarctic summer teeming with wildlife. Gentoo penguins make their way to the ocean on Brown Bluff, a basalt tuya located on the ...

If you are planning a trip to one of the most remote destinations on the planet and want a story you will tell forever, ...

Mites are common in the Antarctic—there are hundreds of species ... lower the freezing point of their body to well below 0°C.

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy ... which is good for all the wildlife that depends on it.