The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. The ozone hole over Antarctica grows and closes up again each year – ...

A leathery fossil unearthed from Antarctic sediment is overturning core ideas about how Earth’s dominant marine reptiles ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On March 18, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the east Antarctic ...

The first results of the pioneering scientific research project launched earlier this year have catalogued microplastic particles in the sea water, sediment and animals in Antarctica. (Image: IAEA) ...

Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of the most common animals on the ocean floor, but how these species ...

During recent Antarctic expeditions, researchers spotted a rare, poorly understood species: the Arnoux’s beaked whale, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Marine Mammal Science While ...

The Gonatus antarcticus squid had previously only been identified through remains found in fishing equipment and other animals ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists on a research ...

The Australis sailing ship in Antarctica. Credit: Antonio Alcamí (CBMSO) The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote ...