Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

As the Washington Post reports, researchers aboard the vessel Falkor (too) found an unexpected marine ecosystem beneath a ...

Scientists aboard Australia’s RSV Nuyina have discovered rare marine life and a jade-colored iceberg during a 60-day ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

Maritza Castro and other researchers react with excitement at images being picked up by a remotely operated vehicle along the Antarctic sea floor. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and ...

A giant phantom jelly was documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica after the iceberg A-84 broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf. ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute While most deep ...

Antarctica’s massive ice sheet looks flat. Although the continent’s expansive layer of ice rises 13,400 feet above sea level near its center, the gentle slopes of that dome are imperceptible ...

Hanne E F Nielsen receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Dutch Research Council. Rebecca Kaiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

Antarctica sea ice has been disappearing over the last several years as global temperatures rise amid climate change. The new map of Antarctica's topography beneath the ice gives scientists a ...

But none do so under the dark Antarctic ice. Instead, ocean currents, glacial meltwater or something else has been helping to nourish the deep-sea creatures. “This is all very much an area of ...