Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered what may be the biggest example of the species ever recorded—at more than 13 feet ...

There's a lot of interest in space, galaxies, and the outer world, but the ocean floor seems to be a little-studied place. Or at least one of the least known.

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the mining equipment. Researchers worked in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ( CCZ) ...

Maryland lawmakers move forward with a midcycle congressional redistricting bill as critics raise concerns over process, ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living architecture that scientists are only now beginning to chart in detail. From the ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have found a new layer under Greenland's ice sheet that ...

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

The team used satellite imagery, computer modeling, and an array of different methods to map the ice sheets and glacial flows ...