Beneath the icy waters of Antarctica

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Beneath the icy waters of Antarctica, in a place that seems so inhospitable, live amongst the rarest and most beautiful creatures on earth. Recently, a team of international researchers traveled to study marine life there, where ocean temperatures are rising more rapidly than anywhere else in the world. What they brought back are some of the most fascinating photographs of Antarctic sea life ever seen--portraits of organisms on the front-line of global climate change.

The photographs, released by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), reveal a wide variety of rare marine life--from fish and octopus to giant sea-spiders and starfish, all specially adapted for their unique ecosystem. As ocean temperatures rise, the researchers warn, the fate of these spectacular organisms is increasingly uncertain