The ozone hole over Antarctica grows and closes up again each year – having a hole at all isn’t ideal, but scientists know roughly when to expect it. However, its appearance is now persisting later ...

Antarctic scale worms, particularly the species Eulagisca gigantea, are deep-sea predators known for their alien-like appearance, featuring iridescent scales and a retractable proboscis lined with ...

If you had to guess which is more dangerous, a polar bear or a grizzly bear, what would you say? Climate change has led to ...

Eleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. Antarctica might conjure up images of ...

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 ice, ...

There are a number of amazing things about this video, including the absolutely breathtaking close-ups of a jellyfish that lives in the strange world beneath the thick ice that covers the waters ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

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 1845 ...

Antarctic sea life - including the oldest living creatures on the planet - are at risk from increasing number of ships dropping anchor there, warns a new report. Underwater video footage has revealed ...