'This animal lives so deep within the Antarctic pack ice that its life history is not very well understood,' photographer Justin Hofman wrote ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Violent underwater "storms" could cause the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to melt much more quickly than originally thought, a new study found, which could also put more coastal communities at risk. As ...

As the penguin darted through the water currents, its unique hydrodynamics revealed tons of remarkable insights about these ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms called phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean ...

An international team of researchers, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), is setting out to discover how glacier calving ...

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 / ...

(CNN) — Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with potentially “far-reaching implications” for global sea level rise, according to a ...

ANTARCTICA -- Australian scientists happened upon a unique animal dubbed the "headless chicken monster" during a recent expedition to test new underwater camera technology. The animal, also nicknamed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildlife photographer has captured what is believed to be the first images of the rare, elusive Ross seal underwater "This ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...