Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The waters around the Antarctic are extremely cold, and very few sharks can survive here. A southern sleeper shark has been ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles. Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average. It’s an ...

Scientists have uncovered a link between a mysterious burst of red-stained water in Antarctica and a drop in the glacier sitting above it. The Blood Falls in Antarctica are a unique feature found at ...

The climate crisis is warming Antarctica fast, with potentially disastrous consequences. Now scientists have modeled the best- and worst-case scenarios for climate change in Antarctica, demonstrating ...

Sharks in Antarctica weren't supposed to be a thing. Most experts thought the water was too cold, too isolated from where sharks thrive. Then, in January 2025, a camera 1,600 feet deep off the South ...

None of the main research on the voyage of the Araon was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a sign of the difficult times for American science. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the ...

My colleague just spent two months on a research icebreaker. It changed his perspective on the world in ways he didn’t expect. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. My colleague Raymond Zhong ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Researchers filmed a sleeper shark for the first time in Antarctic waters near the South Shetland Islands, ...