Woods and Lane wanted to study sea spiders because they're "poster kids" for a phenomenon called "polar gigantism" among marine invertebrates that live in the Arctic and Antarctic waters.

Australian scientists aboard the icebreaker ship RSV Nuyina uncovered a host of unique marine creatures during a 60-day expedition near the Denman Glacier in East Antarctica. The mission aimed to ...

With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic ... ships for sailors at risk of sea snake bites. Mr Collett says snakes ...

In Australia's Illawarra region, a ghostbusting-style night tour reveals ghost fungi, sea sparkles and tiny creatures ... he can easily spot silver spiders eyes blinking at us like cat's eyes ...

A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

We’ve got enough problems without having to contemplate the motivations of this faceless alien baby. Meet the giant Antarctic sea spider (Decolopoda australis), seen here absolutely dwarfing a ...

Since the late 1970s, Antarctic sea ice had been experiencing a modest increase of about 1% per decade until measurements taken in February showed that sea ice levels were at an all-time low since ...

There are entire areas of the Antarctic, like much of West Antarctica, that are below sea level because of the thickness of the ice sheet. "There's no ocean there right now, because the ice is ...

IN WHAT has been hailed as a victory and a historic moment in the history of conservation, the Antarctica’s Ross Sea has been declared a Marine Protected Area (MPA). The announcement was made at ...

How generous are you? Neil and Sophie discuss Mark Zuckerberg and what it takes to be a modern-day philanthropist.