Every spring, southern elephant seals gather in colonies on the sand spit at Baie Charrier and many others in the Kerguelen archipelago. This is where the females give birth on the sand just behind the high water mark. This ecosystem cannot function correctly without...
These larvae will once turn into midges able to live on cold soils with an average temperature of about 2°C. Image: Chris Gilbert The soil of an island, not far from the Antarctic Peninsula, is the scene of a powerful metamorphosis. An insect larva introduced by...