Scientists put trackers on Antarctic seals to help them map the ocean floor. The deep-diving seals uncovered a massive underwater canyon more than a mile deep. This canyon may help scientists predict ...

THE otherworldly continent of Antarctica seems all the more fantastical when seen from a new perspective, as shown in these maps laying out its different features in detail. The maps were devised ...

Technology Seals with sensors on their heads help map ocean Data collected by 57 elephant seals has revealed disturbing information about the depth of the floor around the west coast of Antarctica.

Oceanographers are using data collected by elephant seals to improve their map of the seafloor on Antarctica’s continental shelf. The new map results from a collaboration between Daniel Costa, a ...

What to Know Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a press release about the map said.

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica without ice, revealing its hidden mountains, canyons, and geological features. The new Bedmap3 dataset helps researchers understand ice ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

As it turns out, seals are terrific research assistants in Antarctica. Weddell and elephant seals, in particular, regularly swim through exactly the waters scientists want to explore, and they do ...