A firsthand Arctic expedition inspires students to connect with wildlife, climate impacts, and real-world conservation solutions.

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

An ancient hornless rhino fossil found in the Canadian Arctic, Epiaceratherium itjilik, shows rhinos once lived much farther north.

A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.

This 11-pound fox survived 14 days on a cargo ship crossing the Atlantic. What happens to it next is complicated.

In the waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, a remarkable creature glides silently through the darkness. The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) isn't just another marine predator; it's a ...

At first glance, polar bears look almost too cute to be real.They appear in cartoons hugging snowballs, sliding across ice or cuddling fluffy cubs. Their round ...

Happy International Polar Bear Day! For 21 years, conservation nonprofit Polar Bears International has celebrated these ...

The woolly mammoth’s extinction remains one of paleontology’s most contested questions. Most mainland populations vanished between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. A small population persisted on Wrangel ...

With a world-class cast that will have you constantly saying ‘hey, it’s that guy!’, this horror drama about a doomed Royal Navy expedition is a grand treatise on colonial folly ...