A skate appears in frame motionless on the seabed and seemingly unperturbed by the passing shark. The skate, a shark relative that looks like a stingray, was no surprise since scientists already knew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating glaciers in January, a team of scientists ...

Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...

Imagine waking up at 6 AM each day, pulling on layers of thermal gear, and bracing yourself to trek across a frozen wasteland, only to spend hours staring at screens, guiding underwater drones through ...

Striations, grooves, and mud deposits from anchor retrieval were visible in the substrate of the ocean floor. At the disturbed sites, little to no marine life was present. Credit: Matt Mulrennan / ...

Antarctica’s marine realm is a dynamic mosaic where extreme environmental conditions have driven remarkable evolutionary processes. The isolation imposed by frigid temperatures and the formidable ...

This month, researchers board a Sea Shepherd vessel in Antarctica's South Orkney Islands to study the overlap between krill ...

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

Antarctic notothenioids represent a remarkable evolutionary radiation of fishes that have flourished in the extreme cold of the Southern Ocean. Their unique adaptations — including specialised ...

Viruses are abundant and diverse across Antarctic sea ice, surface waters, and deep ocean habitats, with many unique polar populations. They employ both lytic and lysogenic strategies, with community ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...