Researchers identified two ecologically distinct communities of transient killer whales along the West Coast, each with unique hunting behaviors, habitats, and social networks.

"Now we have recovering numbers." Experts thrilled by recovery of iconic creatures from brink of extinction: 'So incredibly important' first appeared on The Cool Down.

For generations, flapper skate was mislabelled as common skate. It was only in 2010 that the common skate was shown, ...

Greg Mortimer, who was one of the first Australians to climb Everest, has spoken out about the amount of people climbing it.

Life is rarely solitary, yet some beings exist in extreme biological isolation. From a lone, ancient tree in Bahrain's desert ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

The Falkland Islands sit far north of the Antarctic Peninsula, yet they’re a key part of many Antarctic expeditions. These windswept islands burst with life, and here you can spot colonies of king ...

Meaning: ‘Krill’ are small, shrimp-like marine crustaceans that belong to the order Euphausiacea. They are a vital food ...

The century-long story of two blue whale vertebrae can now be told for the first time, revealing their part in helping to ban ...

What we cannot feel, we cannot legislate for. What we cannot sense, we will not account for. Art can widen our viewpoint.

Antarctica is otherworldly – breathtakingly beautiful, and yet so alien, frozen, and unforgiving that it is hard to imagine surviving there. Author and explorer Jon Krakauer has said of it, ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach -40°C or lower in the interior, with the lowest ever temperature on Earth ...