Although the continent of Antarctica is usually described as a hostile, frozen wilderness, surprisingly unique animals exist that ... "yeti crab," lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

A team of scientists have been using the colour of seawater to help count tiny Antarctic ... and many ocean creatures depend on them to survive - including the world's biggest animal - the blue ...

Researchers have discovered an otherworldly, 20-tentacled creature lurking in the freezing depths of the Antarctic Ocean ... To discover the new animals, whose colors range from purple to dark ...

Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica. The evidence comes from a study of tiny marine animals living either side of the 2km thick ...

The first results of the campaign, led by Antonio Alcamí, a CSIC research professor at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology ...

Growing up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, Antarctic scale worms are a type of ocean-dwelling polychaete, or bristle worm (polychaete is Latin for "many bristles").

The species of fish lives deep in the Antarctic Ocean, making it difficult to find ... but distantly related, plants and animals," said herpetologist Harith Farooq, a study co-author, in a ...

The tiny creatures are only a few centimetres long but play a critical role in Antarctic marine ecosystems, sustaining penguins, seals and the world’s largest animals, including blue whales.