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The research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to depart from Troms, Norway, on Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, for the North Pole.

On an underwater mountain in the Arctic Ocean lives a community of sponges with a ghoulish secret. With little to eat in the nutrient-poor water, the sponges survive by digesting the remains of long-dead animals that once inhabited the seamount peaks where the sponges now live

Sponges that are hundreds of years old live and thrive atop layers of dead animals in the Arctic Ocean. They survive in the low-nutrient water by feeding off extinct creatures remains, which bacteria help them to digest.

The Weddell Seafloor was littered with 60 million icefish eggs discovered by scientists aboard an icebreaker in Antarctica. Every nursery is guarded by a ghost parent, and together they form the world's largest known breeding colony of fish.

Deep-sea biologists surveying the Weddell Sea in Antarctica came across an icefish nesting site that is roughly the size of the island nation of Malta.

Also known as notothenioids, the icefish play an important role in the wider food web, say experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Scientists onboard an icebreaker in Antarctica were blown away when they spied a trove of 60 million icefish nests dotting the floor of the Weddell Sea. The bonanza of nurseries – each guarded by a ghostly looking parent – represents the lar

Mysterious News Briefly — January 14, 2022 For those who say they see no value in studying math, researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical feature of megaripples or giant waves of sand found all over the world — dividing the diameter of the coarsest grains with the diameter of the smallest grains always equals a... Read more »

Scientists onboard an icebreaker in Antarctica were blown away when they spied a trove of 60 million icefish nests dotting the floor of the Weddell Sea.

April 30, 2021 Sponges are considered to be one of the most primitive forms of animal life, because they have neither locomotion organs nor a nervous system. A team around deep-sea scientist Antje Boetius has now discovered that sponges leave trails on the sea floor in the Arctic deep sea. They conclude that the animals might move actively – even if only a few centimetres per year. They are now publishing these unique findings in the journal Current Biology. The surprise was great when resear...