Snowy owl sightings have been thrilling people across northern Illinois this winter, but these occasional visitors from the ...

What animals live in the coldest areas of the planet? We've done the research! Meet the animals thriving in earth's polar ...

Snow is more than just a pretty blanket over the landscape––it’s a phenomenon packed with surprising abilities.

Academy Research Fellow Elina Kaarlejärvi from the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences is investigating the combined effects of global warming and herbivory on the diversity of fell ...

It enables researchers to conduct practical Arctic research that would ... Besides the climate, tundra vegetation is largely regulated by plant eaters of varying sizes, including reindeer, hares, ...

A pair of ravens sailed overhead, and apart from their jeering, there was no sound on the tundra but the voices ... scours Greely Fiord for muskoxen and arctic hares. When the fiord freezes ...

Chameleons are the most famous color-changing animals, but there are plenty of other animals that possess this talent.

For animals like Arctic foxes and snowshoe hares, snow becomes the ultimate survival ... blends seamlessly into the fresh Canadian, snowy tundra, helping it avoid detection by predators.

Arctic hare sitting in snow and ready to jump. Image via Depositphotos The Arctic hare is a skilled survivor of the tundra. With a dense coat and a color-changing camouflage from white in winter to ...

The taxonomic name comes from the word, buteo, the Latin used by Pliny for ‘buzzard’, and lagopus, meaning 'hare-footed' for the bird’s tarsi (legs) are covered with feathers that act like leg warmers ...

Now he lay sprawled on the ice-encased tundra, a gash in his ski pants and ... sleeping in a snow cave he dug with a tin cup and hunting arctic hare or musk ox to eat. At last, in July of 2010 ...