A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health has been cited for documenting what its author described as the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil. The ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

The huge predator was caught swimming in waters 490 metres deep, at a temperature of 1.27C. According to the biologist, who is also the founding director of the University of Western Australia-based ...

Millions of unknown microbial genes discovered in Antarctica’s ocean reveal a hidden ecosystem that may influence carbon cycling and climate.

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Scientists have discovered a rare red-coloured bacterium in an Antarctic lake that can survive extreme cold and intense UV radiation. The microbe could have important applications in biotechnology, ...

The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...

Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a sleeper shark, one of the ocean's rare and mysterious long-lived species. Inkfish, UWA, Kelpie Geosciences Sharks can be ...

Antarctica’s frozen frontier is retreating, and the scale is far greater than many realize. Over the last several years, ...

Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

The McMurdo docking pier, (built as the barge NSF DIscovery Pier) constructed by Gunderson Marine & Iron (GM&I) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has successfully arrived at McMurdo Station, ...

"It's incredibly energy-intensive and the birds use up to 50% of their body mass," he says. It is "probably the most ...