Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

A Google Earth sleuth claims to have found a figure that looks like an alien's face in the snow in Antarctica. A satellite image shared on the r/strangeearth Reddit page last week has sparked ...

For years, ocean exploration has been largely dominated by automated systems and remote-operated vehicles (ROVs), but the DSMV promises to revolutionise how humans interact with the deep sea. By ...

A pair of Bathynomus vaderi purchased from the fish market – credit: Rene Ong Though recently gaining the limelight as a superior alternative to lobster tail, a species of giant isopod is making ...

Deep in the Barents Sea off the northern coast of Norway, the Borealis Mud Volcano has been spewing methane for centuries and supporting a flourishing community of seafloor creatures. Researchers have ...

In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly ...

Since then, B-15A has found its way to McMurdo Sound, where its presence has blocked ocean currents and led to a build-up of sea ice. With the Antarctic summer now at an end and in-situ ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The world’s biggest iceberg — a 130-foot (40-meter) tall wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is ...