If your family wants a gentle introduction to Antarctic wildlife, the South Shetland Islands are the perfect first stop. With ...

Why do people love penguins so much? This weekend, Discovery’s Frozen Planet begins counting the ways. The tubby little birds are hardly the only creatures in the documentary series about life in the ...

Ukrainian polar team highlighted that many sub-Antarctic penguins have already laid their eggs — and sometimes have to incubate them even in deep snowdrifts. While they sit on the eggs, the snow piles ...

Photographer Paul Goldstein spent time with a colony of Emperor penguins while guiding in the Antarctic this month.

Scenic Discovery Yachts is offering freshly released departures to see the remote Emperor penguin colony of Snow Hill Island in Antarctica.

Scientists learning polar climates can shift rapidly. ATLANTA -- Within a decade, global climate change could open a Northwest Passage -- the long sought ice-free passage to Asia that eluded Arctic ...