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Researchers Discover ‘Death Ball’ Sponge and Dozens of Other Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures in the Southern Ocean

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...
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Massive Antarctic Iceberg Breaks Away, Revealing More Than 1,000 Nests Made by Unexpected Creatures

They explored Antarctica's sea floor and found more than 1,000 circular nests. Each of these structures did not have a layer ...

Scientists Just Found a ‘Death-Ball’ Sponge and a Whole Bunch of Other Deep-Sea Weirdos

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...
Science News

Deep Antarctic waters hold geometric communities of fish nests

Scientists found thousands of patterned fish nests in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, boosting calls for marine protected areas.
The State

Sea creature with ‘large’ throat pores found off Antarctica. It’s a new species

Scientists found a sea creature with “large” pores on its throat off of Antarctica and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Derek Oyen via Unsplash Off the coast of Antarctica, ...
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Prehistoric predators and creatures of the Antarctic: See latest new species

Scientists found a sea creature with “large” pores on its throat off of Antarctica and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Derek Oyen via Unsplash The summaries below were drafted with ...
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Antarctica fossil, 'The Thing,' identified years later as giant sea creature egg

The fossil of a large egg dating from the time of the dinosaurs has been found for the first time on the continent of Antarctica. In addition to its large size and unique location, this discovery is ...
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Dinosaurs Once Roamed Antarctica, But The Continent Looked Completely Different

Antarctica is famously an icy wasteland in the modern day, but far in the past, dinosaurs once roamed a very different, ...