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 ...

More than 80 years after its tragic sinking, the USS Edsall, a U.S. Navy destroyer, has been located on the seafloor of the ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...

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

Yet these tiny organisms — called plankton — may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of ...

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

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

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 ...

Greek sponge diver Antonis Kampourakis from Kalymnos has been diving into the depths of the Aegean sea, scouring the seafloor ...