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 ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Scientists aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy have discovered a large underwater volcano approximately 1,600 meters beneath ...

In the deep sea off the coast of Chile, a wiggly creature glitters as it speeds across the seafloor. Matt Hardy via Unsplash ...

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

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

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 ...

Monterey Bay is the best studied patch of deep ocean in the world,” said Bruce Robison, senior scientist at MBARI. “And yet ...

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 ...