It was so cold on the coast this morning,” The Oregonian posted on Instagram during that freezing spell last week, “this sea lion stopped by the fire pit at the Bowline Hotel in Astoria!” The post has ...
Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered how the Antarctic midge survives in extreme climates through a ...
What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...
The "unique" way Antarctica’s only native insect survives the extreme cold could help humans travel deep into space, ...
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
It experiences obligatory diapause, a period of dormancy that is naturally induced at a fixed time in an organism's life cycle. When we think of Antarctic animals, most would mention penguins, and ...
Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that ...
How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...