Ice-rated expedition ships are becoming a familiar sight in a less rugged and more well-trodden part of the world: the Mediterranean. Discover if you should book this type of ship for a less ...

When Gabe Castro-Root, a senior in the School of Communication, was selected to join multiple prominent scientists, ...

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University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...

It will use changes in the degree of red coloration detected by satellites to track its quarry: a tiny shrimp smaller than ...

In a recovery-bound economy, it’s probably hard to sell vacations that cost up to $12,000 per person. But for a few Prior Lake families, the experience of exploring an unusual destination ...

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

On Nov. 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand flight left Auckland for Antarctica on what promised to be a photographer’s dream trip. The 11-hour round trip was dubbed a luxury cruise at altitude.

Celebrating its 20th year, ROCO continues its programming that ranges from Beethoven to Ellington, and an emphasis on the ...

When Eric Sun and Jennifer Liu, avid travelers who met in college, decided to marry, there was one continent left on their ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...