University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

Oil rigs around the world are habitats for marine species. When they stop producing oil, should they be removed or allowed to ...

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

Barcelona — A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to ...

In this desolate environment, one creature brings the pizzazz. An international team of researchers organized through the ...

This mysterious object was found about 37 nautical miles off Virginia by NOAA Fisheries. It has been determined to be from an ...

In the surroundings, the dry, exposed rocks of the former seafloor have been bleached white by dead seaweed. The port is a base for squid fishing boats and as many as 60 vessels from outside the ...

Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

NEW YORK — Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America ...

North Carolina’s coast is short on natural reefs with only 3% covering the seafloor. An artificial reef program aims to ...