From a distance, it looked like thick fog across the horizon. But as the ship drew closer, the ocean bubbled as 150 fin whales, the planet’s second-largest creatures, dived and…
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The Search Has Begun for an Antarctic Pioneer’s Lost Ship
The hunt is on for Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sits 10,000 feet below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica. After an 11-day voyage aboard a South African icebreaker, the…
‘Major Discovery’ Beneath Antarctic Seas: A Giant Icefish Breeding Colony
As soon as the remotely operated camera glimpsed the bottom of the Weddell Sea, more than a thousand feet below the icy ceiling at the surface, Lilian Boehringer, a student…
How Maori Arrival in New Zealand Was Frozen in Antarctic Ice
When it comes to data of human record, don’t forget Earth’s only uninhabited continent. Scientists recently located soot preserved in Antarctic ice that they’ve joined to fires set in New…