Walrus: These massive marine mammals are well-adapted for life in the Arctic Ocean. Their thick blubber layer keeps them warm in icy waters, and their powerful tusks help them haul themselves onto ...

Ultimately, they did about 60 percent on land and the rest on sea ice. Along the way, they saw 22 muskoxen, one Arctic hare, and 31 wolves. Some wolves passed directly through their camp.

Imagine stumbling through a sun-dappled meadow, catching a glimpse of a quick, long-eared creature dashing away. Was it a ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Iqaluit in Canada’s High North, supposedly about Arctic security, was nothing more than a carefully staged photo-op. Carney has spent his ...

Animals also typically have shorter lives than humans, so a therapy could be studied over an animal’s entire lifetime and even over generations with its offspring. The bipartisan FDA ...

Now, 85 percent of the Arctic territory’s population has also expressed opposition to coming under Washington’s rule. Trump’s ambitions have been noted elsewhere as well. On Thursday ...

Arctic populations are thought to be healthier, but the animal’s furtive nature and the vast area each one covers pose a challenge to scientists. “The effort you have to put into finding ...

In European traditions, the Easter Bunny is known as the Easter Hare. The symbolism of the hare has had many tantalizing ritual and religious roles down through the years. Hares were given ritual ...

In the dim twilight of an Arctic winter’s day, with the low sun stretching its orange fingers across the frozen sea, a group of researchers drill a hole through the ice and insert a hydrogen ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...