With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the ... that catch small animals that float by in the moving water.

That shrunken redoubt will be the last stand for many of the Arctic’s wild things. “The animals that depend on ... than three million square miles of ocean. But preserving the remnants of ...

The humble bivalve — nicknamed Hafrún, an Icelandic word meaning “ocean mystery” — was the longest-living individual animal ever found ... frigid waters of the Arctic.

Scientists used special equipment to survey and image a volcano beneath the ocean in the Arctic and discovered that it spews mud and gas. As they looked closer, they discovered an unexpected wealth of ...