They’re like frozen fingers of death that form under the sea in the Arctic and Antarctic, stretching down from the ice above. When super-salty water escapes from the ice, it freezes the seawater ...

Experts realized they had captured the first-ever live footage of Gonatus antarcticus, previously only known through dead ...

When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ...

Scientists captured the first documented video of cruise ship anchor damage in Antarctica, potentially to one of the oldest living creatures.

DNA and microscope analysis revealed that among their collection, they had 12 new-to-science species and even a new genus ...

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometres of sea ice around the ...

Method of Attack: These spiders are hunters at ground level, using ambush-style tactics to capture prey. Diet: The wolf spider’s diet consists of crickets, beetles, ants, and caterpillars ...

Across the whole of 2024, warming was observed and sea ice extent measured lower than the 1979 annual average by about 11 percent, according to NSIDC data. According to the National Oceanic and ...

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 ...

“The absolute best ... and Antarctic ice sheets. They pored over studies that took data from satellites, climate models, and evidence from the past from things like ice cores, deep-sea sediments ...

forcing a reevaluation of sea-level rise predictions. Image: ESA In a frozen drama worthy of a neighbourhood soap opera, scientists have discovered that an Antarctic glacier has been quietly ...