In 1940, the American Antarctic Snow Cruiser set out as the ultimate mobile base designed to conquer one of the harshest ...

Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean. Covering 48 million sq km (18.5 million sq ...

"Knowledge of the depth and shape of the sea floor is crucial for us ... and the leaking of heat toward Antarctica." Ultimately, mapping the Southern Ocean will deliver clues about the extent ...

The seabed of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica is still poorly understood. A large international study has been piecing together sonar data to scan the ocean floor. The map, published Tuesday ...

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered by very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a ...

Maritza Castro and other researchers react with excitement at images being picked up by a remotely operated vehicle along the Antarctic sea floor. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and ...

the peer-reviewed study modeled the impact of melting Antarctic ice on deep ocean currents that work to flush nutrients from the sea floor to fish near the surface. Three years of computer ...

It is considered the fastest-melting glacier in East Antarctica ... Sea pigs live on the sea floor, between 3,300 to 19,500 feet (1 to 6 km) below the ocean's surface, and feed on the organic ...

Now, only a few months later, a new team of scientists exploring the Antarctic Ocean floor has captured and documented several strange species that call the cold floor home. The crew on the RSV ...

Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of the most common animals on the ocean floor, but how these ...