At first glance, a glacier looks like a rather lifeless thing—a barren chunk of ice. But there’s much more than meets the eye: Glaciers are home to a host of tiny organisms that make up a flourishing ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Armed with a sophisticated ice borer, professor Daniel Shain went hunting on Byron Glacier for a scientific treasure: the tiny, fragile ice worm. "We know there are millions of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

"It's happening," scientist Scott Hotaling told a reporter for OPB as he gestured across Paradise Glacier high up on Mount Rainier in Washington. He was referencing hundreds of thousands of tiny, ...

Ice worm researchers Scott Hotaling and Peter Wimberger led a trip to study life on the glaciers of Mount Rainier in June. For a long time, Hotaling says, biologists have written off high-altitude ...