Thwaites Glacier is one the largest catchment area of glaciers on the west side of Antarctica. The ice surface, which covers an estimated 192,000 square kilometres, has contributed significantly to the current sea level rise and continues to melt at a rapid rate....
The two penguin ladies Electra and Viola are the first to adopt and raise the chick of another couple as a same-sex couple in the Oceanogràfico Valencia. Photo: Oceanogràfico Valencia The Aquarium Oceanogràfic Valencia in Spain announced this month some offspring at...
The research expedition led the Japanese scientists to the Shirase Glacier in Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. Normally, the bay is inaccessible to ships even in summer, because the sea ice which is connected to the land, also called fast ice, makes it impossible...
Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella), here a male, live on islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. The largest population lives on South Georgia. Photo: Julia Hager The whiskers play an essential role for seals in their search for food. Thanks to their...
Other than previously assumed, penguins do not originally come from Antarctica, but, starting from Australia and New Zealand, settled on the white continent a little later. Photo: Dr Michael Wenger For a long time scientists thought that penguins originated in...
