Ocean Floor

“Ghostly” Dumbo Octopus in the deep sea.

Apex predator of the Cambrian likely sought soft over crunchy prey.

Astrophysicists reveal why Earth’s day was a constant 19.5 hours for over a billion years.

A first concrete explanation for difference, and show it is getting even stormier over time.

The discovery suggests that ocean floor eruptions sourced in the Earth’s mantle were even hotter and more voluminous than previously thought.

Mapping the seabed.

The most wonderful quality about diamonds is that they are one of the only types of physical matter on this earth that do not...

Benthic ecosystems are chronically undersampled, particularly in environments >50 m depth. Yet a rising level of anthropogenic threats makes data collection ever more urgent....

Since years, scientists believe that life originated in the oceans, as the primary divisions and the events of evolution took place there. Now, NASA...