Following yesterday's unceremonious prod down the stern slide of HMNZS Tangaroa, 'Happy Feet,' the Emperor Penguin who washed up on a New Zealand beach, is on his way south.  Interested penguin followers can follow him using every kind of technology available.  Unfortunately, he doesn't yet have a Facebook page.

A NASA research team drilled an eight-inch hole into an Antarctic ice sheet and deployed a video camera over 600 feet down. To their utter surprise, they found a shrimp-like creature swimming around, oblivious to the fact that humans did not expect it could survive in such hostile conditions. Guess they were wrong!

According to the ESA Envisat satellite, an ice bridge connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf to Charcot Island on the Antarctic Peninsula is at high risk of breaking away. Scientists are investigating to see if climatic warming of Earth's South Polar region is to blame.

An ice bridge connecting Wilkins Ice Shelf and Charcot Island in Antarctica may collapse very soon. Its demise would likely doom the 9,000-square-mile (16,000-square-kilometer) ice shelf.

The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a rectangular shaped piece of ice shelf that is part of Wilkins Sound in Antarctica. Roughly stable for hundreds of years, it has recently been disintegrating at an alarming rate.

Science fiction writers have popularized the notion that life on Earth originated from outer space. In line with this thinking, scientists have discovered three Antarctic meteorites that contain high amounts of amino acids, the building blocks that can spawn life.

UK researchers have found that an Antarctic fish hibernates during cold winters.      

Antarctica is filled with tiny organisms that love conditions too extreme for most other living thing. And a team of international scientists is looking for more of them at Lake Untersee in the cold confines of Antarctica.         

Skygazers in all of New Zealand and southeastern Australia will see a partial eclipse of the Sun in the afternoon on Thursday, February 7, 2008.