A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

With climate change warming the planet, the Arctic ice is melting at an alarmingly rapid rate. In fact, according to NASA, ...

How do animals survive the scarce water and extreme ... Cold deserts, such as the Gobi Desert, are found in polar regions with very little precipitation in the form of rain or snow.

A new study has revealed when and how animals like the woolly mammoth, musk ox, and arctic fox developed special adaptations ...

Temperatures in the Arctic region are warming more quickly than anywhere else on Earth, creating challenges for the animals that live there. Polar bears walk across sea ice for miles, searching ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

During the winter months in each hemisphere, the polar regions gain sea ice as seawater freezes. That total amount has been shrinking steadily in recent decades. Sea ice is critical habitat for a ...

Stories have surfaced of animals fighting off new diseases and sometimes losing that fight. The bird flu infected and killed a polar bear and ... at the Army’s Cold Regions Research and ...

Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no exception. Scientists are piecing together when polar ...

The lure of the polar regions is undeniable ... about past conditions by taking samples from the environment, or from animals," Grecian explains. "For example, the baleen plates of whales can ...