I remember reading in some long-ago anthropology class that some Eskimo cultures, not wishing to waste precious food resources on non-productive elders, set them adrift on an ice floe, and waved ...

Caribou crossing the frozen Porcupine River upstream from Old Crow in the Yukon Territory became trapped when the river’s ice began breaking up. A group of caribou is trapped on an ice floe on the ...

A seal resting on an Antarctic ice floe may look safe, at least for a moment. It is out of the water, beyond the reach of most marine predators, perched on a slab of floating ice like a castaway on a ...