Polynyas typically occur in sea ice located in the coastal areas of Antarctica every year, but it is unusual for them to form hundreds of miles away in the open ocean where the sea is thousands of ...
Scientists have solved part of a longstanding mystery on how a gigantic hole in Antarctica's sea ice formed.Scientists first discovered the mysterious hole, known as a polynya, in the 1970s. It was ...
The polynya – the scientific name for an area of water where you would expect to find ice – developed and persisted for several weeks at a time in two consecutive winters, in 2016 and 2017, in ...
Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, that occurred during the winters of 2016 and ... For more on this research, see ...
Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, which was nearly twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winters of 2016 and ...
“The change in wind pattern such as the extremely deep Amundsen Sea Low and its eastward ... contributed to the record low ice conditions in Antarctica. In particular, cyclones have slowed ...
The mystery behind a strange, unexplained object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea – which many suspected was a UFO – may have finally been solved. The object is thought to be over 140,000 years ...
Adding to the mystery of the ... found that the Baltic Sea anomaly is the remains of a process of glacial movements that took place in that area of the ocean in the Ice Age period and could ...
The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is one of the ocean's biggest mysteries ... thought to live in the deep sea in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. While the team did ...
The largest discovered so far is a 43-metre-long engraving of a giant serpent. Others portray giant centipedes, larger-than-life animals – and immense 10-metre-tall human-like figures.