The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Leopard seals have long been thought of as “generalist” predators, feeding on both penguins and other seal species as well as fish, krill, octopus and squid, according to the study.

Strange signals detected from Antarctic ice seem to defy laws of physics. Scientists are searching for an answer The ANITA experiment flew four times between 2006 and 2016.

Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea of the Earth's atmosphere in the ancient past, thanks to their ability to trap bubbles of gas within them. "Like a prehistoric fly trapped in amber ...

Diving in Antarctica is not for the faint-hearted. First, you often need to chainsaw through the sea ice, then plunge into the dark frozen water. Divers have special equipment from fleece ...

Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem: it is an important food source for many species, such as whales, seals and penguins. However, the small crustaceans are ...

Scientists are baffled by weird signals detected beneath Antarctica. A cosmic particle detector designed to pick up rays from space instead recorded a series of bizarre signals from under the ice ...

ANTARCTICA — Strange radio signals detected by a balloon-borne antenna over Antarctica sparked wild theories about physics-defying particles. Now, the world’s largest cosmic ray detector has delivered ...

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

In December, scientists filmed a three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid (Gonatus antarcticus) swimming around 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean, writes Melissa Hobson for National ...

WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday ...

Life in Antarctica during mid-winter is defined by its absence of daylight. As the Australian Antarctic Program describes it: "For a few weeks each year the sun fails to rise on the world's most ...