Conservation and research here is almost entirely reliant on grant funding from the UK government through a scheme for ...
A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...
Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...
The world’s largest and oldest iceberg, which is twice the size of Greater London, has run aground near the island of South ...
Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross Sea coast, showing how ...
But samples from further down, where penguin DNA and eggshell were scarce, contained DNA from southern elephant seals. Today, elephant seals are uncommon visitors to the Antarctic continent, and breed ...