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 ...

A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Screenshot from the footage of a sleeper shark seen in Antarctica's waters Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center Sharks are ancient creatures—even older than land dinosaurs—and they’ve evolved to swim ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that the iron released by melting ice in West Antarctica isn't in a form that benefits marine life. That may spell trouble for the ocean's ability to absorb carbon pollution.

An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters ...

A marine researcher has captured the first-ever video footage of a shark swimming in Antarctica’s near-freezing waters. The incredible footage, which you can see for yourself in this Instagram post, ...

A 13-foot sleeper shark was captured on camera in Antarctic waters for the first time in history, shocking scientists who believed the region was too cold for sharks to survive. The shark was filmed ...

The Pentagon has secured $194 million to build the first of a fleet of new ski planes that will support troops flying over the Arctic and Antarctic. Funding approved by Congress last month includes ...