Saltwater doesn’t run through their veins, so why don’t icefish freeze? They are protected from freezing because they produce large quantities of antifreeze proteins (AFPs) in their blood. This means ...

It can be tricky to see sponges as animals, stationary and plant-like as they are, but they represent some of the ...

Set against the backdrop of Antarctica's six-month Winter Over, which is marked by perpetual darkness and isolation, our ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the Antarctic seafloor.

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.