In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...
One fascinating creature spends its winters beneath four feet of Antarctic sea ice, diving to nearly 2,000 feet in water cold ...
The eerie structures imaged by Ran are the result of melting that's undercutting the Dotson shelf, creating an unstable ...
In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...
Antarctica's "Blood Falls" glacier bleeds red water, and scientists found hidden pressure beneath the mysterious millennial ...
Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals have appeared in movies and tv specials. They’re now both on the verge of extinction ...
The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
A remote Antarctic research team became the only people on Earth to witness a rare annular solar eclipse — and one scientist ...
Antarctic sea ice decline in 2015 was caused by weakening ocean stratification and strong storms that mixed warm deep water ...
In 2019, the beginnings of an Antarctic accent were discovered after 11 study participants began merging their vowel sounds.
Under the ice in Antarctica’s silent world, an outstanding performer lives. One of the rarest and least studied seals in the world, the Ross seal makes noises so extraordinary that some experts ...