The first explored the South Sandwich Islands, where active tectonic activity and methane vents create warm, chemical-rich ...

The annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean ...

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

A robot found over 1,000 organized fish nests under Antarctic ice, revealing geometric breeding patterns and new clues about ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Leaders have failed to come to an agreement on critical fisheries management measures to protect krill, penguins, whales and ...

Have you ever wondered how some life forms keep going in places so cold we’d call them frozen? Places humans wouldn't dare ...

When photos of a strange worm began circulating on Facebook, people assumed it was another deep-sea hoax. But the creature is real. Meet ...

Bald eagles are another apex predator that have no known natural predators other than humans. They are opportunistic hunters ...

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

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the ...