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 ...

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge, which runs a unit near the Scott County Fairgrounds in St. Lawrence Township, was established to ...

A state-of-the-art catamaran reveals a stretch of Tasmania’s rugged southern coastline that few visitors get to see.

Sydney, Jan 29 (IANS) Australian researchers have created a new detailed map of Antarctica's ice-free land that they say ... ice-free lands are home to uniquely adapted flora, several species of ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Sydney, Jan 29 (IANS) Australian researchers have created a new detailed map of Antarctica's ice-free ... to uniquely adapted flora, several species of arthropods, microbes and ...

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