Before the second winter, the larvae reach their final stage but don't pupate. Instead, they enter obligatory diapause, a natural dormancy phase in their life cycle.

The tiny flightless Antarctic midge has developed its own method of coping with freezing temperatures. The post Antartica’s ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

But when biologists took a look at the video, they said the whale was actually something much more rare — a juvenile Antarctic minke whale. “I’ve never heard of an Antarctic minke whale here ...

The Justice Secretary wants the imminent prison release of a ringleader of the Telford abuse scandal to be halted after a bungled parole hearing. Officials failed to warn one of Mohammed Ali ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has begun an expert review of how computer evidence is used in the courts system. It said there is currently a presumption that computers work correctly and any evidence ...

Challenges for the Antarctic Treaty China's involvement in Antarctica is by no means new. The country set up its first research station in 1985, just two years after joining the Antarctic Treaty ...

The work of the county court is to be scrutinised by MPs as delays mount in the civil justice system. The cross-party justice committee, chaired by Labour MP Andy Slaughter, said today it will ...