The Lincoln Park Zoo has named their new penguin chick after a tough former Chicago Bear wide receiver. “Waddle” won the ...

Travel to the end of the earth—as Ushuaia, Argentina, is called. Then travel beyond it, to the islands, coves and research ...

The Falkland Islands sit far north of the Antarctic Peninsula, yet they’re a key part of many Antarctic expeditions. These windswept islands burst with life, and here you can spot colonies of king ...

Two species of seal live in the UK all year round – the grey seal and the harbour seal. These earless seals are found around much of our coastline and sometimes venture into our rivers too. The grey ...

A 15-day voyage takes in the Southern Ocean in all its glory, visiting South Georgia, the Sandwich Islands, Elephant Island – ...

The aquarium does not hide their elderly guests. They are right in front of the gift shop, where penguin souvenirs easily ...

COMMENT: The wildlife of Antarctica is supported by one of the smallest, but most significant species found anywhere on the planet, Antarctic Krill, writes ...

Geophysicist Albert Grabovetsky was sipping her morning coffee near the Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica this past October when hundreds of penguins gathered at the shore and leaped spectacularly ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). For the explorer Ernest Shackleton, it was the glory of reaching the South Pole that brought him to Antarctica. For polar polymath ...

The ocean’s top predator, orcas hunt in coordinated pods, flipping sharks upside down to induce paralysis before feeding. With enormous size and strength, sperm whales can easily crush or ram sharks ...

Killer whales rarely risk hunting leopard seals – Antarctica’s second top predator. But when reinforcement whales appear, this group of killer whales has a technique for capturing this aggressive ...