The South Shetland Islands on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula are the best areas to see chinstrap penguins. The almost 55 cm tall penguins find ideal breeding areas with stones on land and enough krill nearby. The team in their latest study shows how they...
Polar bears are indeed the largest predators in the world. But even the biggest polar bear can hardly do anything against a full-grown walrus using its normal hunting strategy. Is that why the hunters use rocks and ice chunks? Three researchers investigated this...
From Kangerlussuaq, tourists can also reach the Greenland Ice Sheet relatively easily. Normally in July and August the streams and lakes at the edge of the ice are full to the brim with meltwater. This year everything is different, mainly thanks to the heat over...
T-Rex, which roam the Alaskan Arctic wilderness as a family and spend the entire year there. This is how the researchers and the painter James Havens imagine the situation in the Cretaceous period. Fossil finds by researchers support the notion. Image: James Havens...
Copied from the Inuit and other inhabitants of the Arctic, sled dogs were used as draft animals on numerous expeditions by Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott and also Mawson. But the task took a heavy toll and the dogs died of disease, injury, malnutrition or were killed for...
