Picture Antarctica today and what comes to mind? Large ice floes bobbing in the Southern Ocean? Maybe a remote outpost populated with scientists from around the world? Or perhaps colonies of penguins ...
The first cases of bird flu have been detected in seabirds in the Antarctic, according to the British Antarctic Survey, raising fears the disease will spread rapidly through dense colonies of birds ...
Anyone who has seen the documentary "March of the Penguins" (also known as the best movie ever) knows how rough polar life can be. Polar seabirds are adapted to withstand the Antarctic's uniquely ...
As global temperatures rise, Arctic birds are breeding earlier than they did in previous decades. However, the reverse is true in Antarctica, new research shows. “In the Arctic, spring basically comes ...
The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...
The world's worst bird flu outbreak has spread to the tip of South America, within striking distance of Antarctica - Copyright AFP/File NOEL CELIS The world's worst ...
Antarctica's isolated population of wildlife faces an unprecedented threat: avian flu. The lethal variant of avian flu, H5N1, has made its way to populations of brown skuas on Bird Island, part of the ...
Mercury contamination in the Antarctic and Subantarctic affects bird populations, reveal researchers. The scientists monitored skuas in Adélie Land and the Kerguelen Islands for ten years and showed ...
Antarctic birds also flourished there, including early penguin species and the extinct relatives of ducks and ostriches. Pelagornithids would have existed in this ecosystem alongside the others, ...
As their name suggests, these ancient birds had sharp, bony spikes protruding from sawlike jaws. Resembling teeth, these spikes would have helped them catch squid or fish. We also studied another ...
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