Some visitors to Antarctic waters got the show of a lifetime when several orcas went on the hunt for a penguin. Instead of simply nabbing the penguin, though, the orcas were playing with their food.

Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, measuring up to 30 meters long and weighing up to 200 tons—as much as a Boeing 787. Yet it's the sound they make, not their size, which gives their ...

A seal resting on an Antarctic ice floe may look safe, at least for a moment. It is out of the water, beyond the reach of most marine predators, perched on a slab of floating ice like a castaway on a ...

Scientists in Antarctica have attached a “whale cam” to the back of a southern minke whale for the very first time. The video footage is giving scientists a sneak peek into a day in the life of a ...