Crustaceans, snails, worms and fish are among the dozens of creatures that deep-sea explorers discovered under a massive Antarctic ice shelf.

iaai on an Antarctic island called Vega ... iaai, but also assert that the ancient creature was definitely an ancestor of modern waterfowl—particularly loons and grebes. If correct, this ...

In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to flourish in an otherwise inhospitable place. And, since poop stains on the ice are sometimes visible from space ...

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a ... A study published last September in Nature Communications found that Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to coastal marshes ...

With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean’s great ...

But scientists in Antarctica ... with other creatures. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The iceberg is still huge but shrinking as it moves into warmer waters The ice could block harbours ...

As wanderlust drives us toward increasingly off-the-beaten-path destinations, the number of passengers traveling on ...

However, photos ... Antarctic region, which is expected to be rich in resources but has not been explored much, as well as to test the performance of drills that will be used to excavate ice ...

From the 1.5 million square mile-spanning continental shelf of Antarctica ... ice. 161 miles into the ice were strange and mysterious creatures firmly clumped in a microbial mat, latched to a boulder.

A video shows waves created by an underwater machine to keep people away from an Antarctic ice wall ... Glacial calving occurs when chunks of ice break away from a glacier. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) ...