Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.

An alleged outburst of aggression at South Africa’s Antarctic research station highlights shortcomings in the psychological screening and participant selection for long-duration missions in isolated ...

Such opportunities to see what lives in these areas are rare, said Andrew Thurber, a professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara who specializes in Antarctic research.

In Antarctic, such operations require not only adherence to environmentally friendly principles but also consideration of equipment adaptability to extreme cold and icy surface conditions.

No human is known to have set foot there since 2016 Sydney: A pair of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands unexpectedly hit by Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs may be the world’s most inhospitable ...

In our new research, we analyzed a century of data on how many species have been introduced to the icy continent and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands. Though there's little human presence here ...