The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Brinicles, filmed forming in situ for the first time in 2011, were presented as fingers of death . But Julyan Cartwright and others observ...

Scientists say they have found bacteria living in the cold and dark deep under half a mile of Antarctic ice, a discovery that might advance...

...Cyanobacteria are resourceful organisms. They produce their own energy using a photosynthesis process similar to plants. Light penetr...

East Antarctic ice is gaining mass . The dry valleys remain cold for now so the strange beings , living in a pitch dark lake seven times...

Studies suggest that long-term climate models up to the year 2300 are missing key positive feedbacks that could send global temperatures t...

For literally centuries, polar explorers have been aware that in the springtime the bottom of seasonal sea ice becomes visible discolored. T...

-- a holothurian among creatures studied by BAS (BBC highlights here )

This clip brings to mind a similar experience in Svaalbard in 2003. Through a hydrophone in the sea comes a series of long whistles that st...

Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, about 90 per cent of land species were wiped out as global temperatures soar...

There's been a lot of climate change over the last 14 million years, and what we can say about this place in the middle of the Antarctic...

Scientists have found life in an ecosystem trapped underneath a glacier in Antarctica for nearly 2 million years. The microbes, they suggest...

The ice bridge " almost exploded " - David Vaughan. P.S. 6 April: RealClimate ; 7 April: Giant mass of Antarctic ice ' set for...

This blog has speculated on the Gamburtsevs as a place for future life. It is now reported that liquid water flows in their valleys. Perh...

Chiasmodon niger , or the black swallower -- a deep-sea fish that can extend its stomach to three times its size to swallow fish that are la...

It's reported that the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of collapse and a paper in Nature [1] offers clear evidence that Antactica is...

Broecker 's beast stirs ?

Starfish, South Orkney -- from a gallery of photographs illustrating the first comprehensive "inventory" of sea and land animals...

At 500 million years old, [the Gamburtsevs] may not be the oldest mountains on the planet, but they likely are the tallest of the ancient mo...

Megaleledone setebos lives in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. It is one of the ' new ' species described in the Census of Mar...

Scientists are exploring the Gamburtsevs -- 'ghost' mountains of undetermined age that have been buried far beneath the Antarctic i...