Zhou researches genome evolution and animal adaptation as a bioinformatics technician at the Shenzhen-based biotech company, BGI-Research.

How Insects, Smallest Animals Survive Antarctica In Antarctica's, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science.

Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its face. Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura ...

Ice-free areas in Antarctica could expand by close to 25% by 2100 and drastically change the animal and plant life of the continent.

These genetic changes not only have major implications for understanding the evolution of Antarctica's unusual animals, but also highlight that some key adaptations used by fishes mirror the ...

Among the many winter survival strategies in the animal world, hibernation is one of the most common. According to new research, this type of adaptation has a long history. In a paper published in ...

Animals adapt to survive. Learn how animal adaptations help organisms. How an animal looks or behaves reflects where it lives. It has to adapt to survive in its environment and passes those ...

With all these adaptations, Adélies are well-equipped for Southern Ocean life. The specialization of Adélie penguins to the Southern Ocean makes them sensitive to its changes.

Even in Antarctica, scientists are worried about invasive species — and about existing species clashing with one another as the planet warms.