A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

We are going back 55 million years. That was when Greenland and Norway began to drift apart, causing the Atlantic Ocean to ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

In 2022, the eruption of the underwater Hunga volcano near Tonga sent a plume of ash soaring 37 miles into the sky, setting a new record as the largest volcanic plume ever captured by satellites. This ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.