When you're trying to survive in the freezing wilderness of Antarctica, you need all the help you can get – and it seems that some marine worms stay alive by forming relationships with bacteria that ...

In the coldest, most isolated place on Earth, a group of scientists braves the icy winds in search of answers. Clad in thick, red gear that contrasts with the blue and white landscape, researchers ...

In the frigid waters of the Antarctic Ocean, only the hardiest animals survive. Some layer up with blubber to keep warm. Others produce natural cryoprotectants, either antifreeze proteins or smaller ...

Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside many animals' guts and in nearly all of the world's environments, from hot, geothermal vents to the cold ...

It’s time for the blobfish to move over. There’s another ugly sea creature in town (or the reefs, rather), and it’s essentially nightmare fuel. This is what Eulagisca gigantea, or the Antarctic scale ...

LONDON (Reuters) - What name would you give to a species of Antarctic, sea-dwelling worm that spends its time 2,000 metres below the water's surface, wriggling in the rotting carcasses of whales? The ...