Sei whales are baleen whales and are smaller than fin whales with a body length of up to 20 meters and a weight of 45 tons. They were heavily hunted in the Southern Ocean until the 1970s, which is why they are still classified as “critically endangered”...
Fossil teeth from extinct steppe bison and wild horses provided scientists with clues as to why these large grazers became extinct in the Arctic. Photo: Andrew Higley/UC Creative + Brand In the ice-age mammoth steppe, which shaped the landscape of what is now northern...
The front flippers of leopard seals, which belong to the true seals or phocids, are much larger than in other species of the same taxonomic family. Photo: Julia Hager Seals are mammals that live (almost exclusively) in the sea and are perfectly adapted to the water...
Female polar bears have mated with male grizzlies on several occasions. So far, eight polar bear-grizzly hybrids have been confirmed in the wild in the Canadian Arctic. Polar bears are perfectly adapted to life in the Arctic. Hybrids that have less warming fur or too...
The South Korean research icebreaker Araon got caught in the middle of an Arctic cyclone in 2016 and was given involuntarily the opportunity to shed light on why the powerful storms are causing Arctic sea ice to shrink so quickly. Photo: Joo-Hong Kim, Korea Polar...