The new predatory sponge was found by divers 11,800 feet deep east of Montagu Island off the coast of Antarctica.

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience has revealed that the substantial retreat of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) approximately 9,000 ...

Warm deep water driven by ancient meltwater feedbacks caused rapid ice-shelf collapse in East Antarctica 9,000 years ago. The ...

A study has revealed that the substantial retreat of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) approximately 9,000 years ago was ...

A glacier on the eastern side of Antarctica has undergone the fastest retreat ever documented in modern times. In only two ...

A standout discovery was this new predatory sponge. Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey.

The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have ...

A sudden, record-breaking glacier collapse in Antarctica is revealing how unseen forces beneath the ice could reshape the ...

Scientists discovered 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, offering the oldest direct record of Earth’s ancient atmosphere ...

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

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

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