A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

From Hudson Bay to the Chukchi Sea, meet 19 polar bear groups and the people racing to protect them as ice disappears.

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more ...

Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.

In his lyrical book Frostlines, Neil Shea argues that we are more connected to the Arctic than we might think, says Elle Hunt ...

But all birds have high body temperatures. The chickadee’s best trick is to go into torpor every night, a brief form of hibernation that reduces their body temperature by 20 degrees, saving energy. In ...

Winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition's Grand Jury Prize, Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden's film is both a nature doc and a haunting ethnographic portrait.

Epic flights, adventurous sea journeys, and exhausting road trips all play a key part in the lives of many species. But ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Beluga whales can disappear beneath Arctic sea ice for long stretches, which makes them far tougher to follow than many other ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils unearthed in Alaska reveal that baby dinosaurs were born and raised through harsh Arctic winters, enduring months of darkness and cold. This groundbreaking discovery challenges ...