Macrobenthos are larger animals that live on the sea floor, such as echinoderms, mussels and worms. According to the current study, these diverse communities are surprisingly unaffected by the seasons. Photo: Peter Leopold, Norsk Polarinstitut Despite the strong...
Bottom-dwelling organisms such as starfish and anemones cannot swim away from predators. They make do with chemical defenses designed to deter enemies. But studies on whether this also works in Antarctic waters do not exist in great numbers. Image: Conxita Avila,...
On the seafloor beneath the ice shelf in the Antarctic Atka Bay, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey found an unexpectedly large diversity of living organisms. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute There is more marine life under...
The research vessel “Ivan Petrov” and the scientists shortly before departure in Arkhangelsk. (Photo: Rosneft) On August 14, an expedition aboard the scientific research vessel “Ivan Petrov” departed from Arkhangelsk for Novaya Zemlya and Franz...
Ice shelves are quite flat at their surface due to wind and weather. They are fed by the glaciers of the surrounding Antarctic continent, which flow together in the bays. But beneath the surface of the ice shelves, on the ocean floor, things look much richer,...