fur seals, brown skuas, kelp gulls and Antarctic terns. BAS operates two research stations on South Georgia: King Edward Point and Bird Island. As a result of the confirmed cases of HPAI ...

Just a few years after Cook's voyage, whalers and sealers sailed south. Expeditions harvested the Antarctic fur seals that crowded onto island beaches to mate each summer. With no experience of ...

From birds and reptiles to marine giants and iconic species in Africa, Antarctica, and the Amazon, a small-boat cruise offers ...

During summer months, when predator activity increases and daylight extends hunting opportunities, seals spend significantly more time on icebergs. A longitudinal study published in Polar Biology ...

According to satellite images, it appears to have maintained its structure and is yet to break up into smaller chunks, the British Antarctic ... Georgia is home to fur seals and penguins, and ...

South Africa’s premier Antarctic research programme is plagued by infrastructure failures, internal dysfunction and a power crisis at one of its remote bases — according to scientists and ...

They are perfectly adapted to this frigid environment with their thick layers of blubber and fur, allowing them to swim long distances and hunt seals on the sea ice ... place during the extreme cold ...

Following the flow of the ocean current, the baby whale travels from the warm water of the tropics to the icy Antarctic and encounters different creatures that play a key role in the ocean’s ...

Seals are chatty mammals that make a variety of sounds, communicating with one another through underwater frequencies.

Wealthy adventurers and bucket listers rub shoulders with scientists looking to gather data as funding vanishes under the ...