A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of ...

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

With a rise in global temperatures, Antarctica was facing extreme shrinkage in ice and weak ocean currents, and scientists warned about them.

Leopard seals rank among the largest seal species on Earth, with adult females reaching nearly 12 feet in length and weighing ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...