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A collection of hypothetical Arctic hybrid species made waves on the Smithsonian's website on Tuesday. The creatures are cute, but are they scientific?

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as centuries-old artifacts are revealed for the first time. Take a look at some ...

Tuesday is "Arctic Sea Ice Day," created underscore the needs of animals in northern Canada threatened by Arctic sea ice melt ...

Tape and his colleagues assessed aerial photos from the early 1950s and found no signs of beaver presence in Alaska's Arctic tundra. The first signs of beavers appeared in 1980 imagery.

The animal is a female Arctic fox that weighs six-and-a-half pounds, staff said. Arctic foxes are native to areas in the north, including Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Canada and northern Russia.

Swedish Photographer Christian Aslund visited Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle, to document the retreat of glaciers. He found that they look very different from archival images taken up to a century ...