Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

A massive gap in Antarctic sea ice shocked scientists in ... this flow intensified the polynya’s size and lifespan. Maud Rise, an underwater mountain, stirs ocean currents.

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Then roughly a year later, the situation got even stranger. The gap, called a polynya, swelled to the size of Switzerland and stayed open for weeks. Only after it refroze did researchers start piecing ...