Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.

On Christmas day the crew on board the Steve Irwin found the Japanese whaling factory ship by using a military-style drone.

Impressions from Antarctica, photographed by Michael Aw and Göran Ehlmé

International researchers have collected venom from octopuses in Antarctica for the first time, and could open a new frontier in drug development and even washing detergents

At 2:00 am, it is already daylight on Pléneau Island, a place where floating icebergs become grounded, a graveyard of diverse towering structures of ice articulated in extraordinary forms. In a quintessential snowy landscape, snowflakes of perfect shape fall over me, a moment of utter isolation. I am the only one awake among the few that have chosen to sleep on ice with a sleeping bag, our way of bonding with the final wilderness—Antarctica, the last of our planet’s pristine milieu.

German government gives controversial plankton experiment in the Antarctic permission to go ahead.

The new species of Antarctic fish, Gosztonyia antarctica, has been discovered at a depth of 650 metres in the Bellingshausen Sea in the Antarctic Ocean, an area which has not been studied since 1904 and where the fauna is "completely" unknown.

Whale tagged with satellite transmitter completes 5,400-kilometre trip in a month In a remarkable month-long journey the whale swam 5,400 kilometres from northern Baffin Island, down past Greenland, Labrador and Newfoundland heading for the Azores in the mid-Atlantic

The latest video sensation isn't a teen pop star, but a spunky shrimplike creature found deep below the Antarctic ice. Scientists had assumed such dark, subfreezing water would only be able to support a few simple microbes. But the orange amphipod has completely changed where scientists thought advanced life was possible.

NASA scientists have discovered a shrimp-like creature 600 feet below a massive Antarctic ice sheet.