Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and ...

"Our most important finding is the pure existence of such an extensive icefish brooding colony," says Autun Purser of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. "A few dozen nests have ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

Scientists explored the seafloor after an iceberg broke off the Antarctic ice sheet. They were shocked by what they found.

As an adaptation to low temperatures, the Antarctic ice fish has no red blood pigments (haemoglobine) and no red blood cells. Thus the blood is more fluid and the animals save energy otherwise ...

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western ...