The Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who were especially surprised to find at least 235 species live in both polar seas despite a distance ...

But the umbrella of climate change covers a wide range of factors unlikely to affect Antarctic animals in the same way. To pinpoint the species most likely to benefit or suffer in the short-term ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ...

Marine Antarctic animals closely associated with sea ice for food or breeding, such the humpback whale and emperor penguin, are most at risk from the predicted effects of climate change, finds a ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery in Antarctica: the carcasses of tiny animals were found in a lake that sits deep beneath one kilometer (0.6 miles) of Antarctic ice.

Antarctic bivalves have surprised scientists who have discovered that the animals switch sex. The reproduction of Lissarca miliaris was studied in the 1970s and the species was first described in ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated January 24, 2019, to correct the statement that Lake Whillans is the only other ice-covered Antarctic lake that researchers have drilled into.