Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and fueling Antarctica’s marine food web. For decades, scientists have attributed ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have learned how stingrays ...

The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling ...

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

Twenty-nine satellite images, ranging from 2009 to 2024, continue to come back to the same bright form in the shallow waters of Nikumaroro’s lagoon as if the seafloor is unwilling to allow the tale to ...

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

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

A granite wall under the Atlantic Ocean in France reveals the existence of a community that predates the arrival of ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Extended Continental Shelf likened to a new 'basement'—nearly 60% of Alaska. Mead Treadwell of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission explains.

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...