These floating barriers hold back the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s expansive ice flows, and their disappearance directly ties to ...

The main goal of the expedition had been to locate, map, and capture images of the Endurance, the historic ship from Shackleton’s 1915 expedition that sank in the same area. However, during their ...

In 2017, an absolute unit of an iceberg calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Western Weddell Sea. It provided ...

Scientists discovered a peculiar “fish neighborhood," one more reason to designate the Weddell Sea as a Marine Protected Area.

The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have ...

Russell B Connelly is a postgraduate researcher and marine biologist at the School of Life Sciences of the University of ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration ship Endurance sank because it lacked beams to prevent compression ice from crushing its hull, according to an analysis. Photo courtesy Aalto University Oct.

There, in Antarctica’s Western Weddell Sea, researchers discovered more than 1,000 circular mounds of sand which had cleared ...

The 'Endurance' leaning to one side, during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. “Comparison with other early wooden polar ships is not favourable for ...

A researcher believes he's cracked the mystery behind the sinking of Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary ship Endurance. Part of one of the most famous Antarctic expeditions in history, Endurance set ...

Beneath the ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, scientists discovered a vast, organized city of fish nests revealed after the ...

Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...