The most peculiar feature of narwhals is their tusk. It usually develops only in male narwhals, mostly from the upper left canine tooth. Photo: Dr. Michael Wenger Narwhals – the “unicorns of the seas” – are good at eluding human gaze, making...
Longyearbyen is the largest town on Spitsbergen and has a modern infrastructure. However, there is no sewage treatment plant in the municipality. The infrastructure of cities and communities in the Arctic is often not comparable to that in temperate and industrialized...
Emperor penguins rely on fast ice – sea ice that is firmly attached to land, islands, or ice shelves and not pushed around by tides and currents – to breed and raise their young. The seasonal change in the extent of the fast ice is of crucial importance...
On Gough Island, Southern Giant Petrels attack breeding Yellow-nosed Albatrosses. In 87 cases, these attacks ended fatally for the albatrosses. Screenshot from video: Michelle Risi, Christopher Jones, and Alexis Osborne Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters are known for...
Ordovician black shales of the Mount Hare Formation, Road River Group (c. 465 million years old) rise above conglomerates of the Aberdeen Member. The dangerous rapids of Aberdeen Canyon (Nan Zhak Nadhàdlaii), created by the Peel River cutting through the resistant...