"The communities we observed have been there for decades, maybe even hundreds of years." Scientists make incredible discovery ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to researchers.

Guernsey could lease part of its seafloor to a wind farm developer, the States has said. Policy and Resources (P&R) said an offshore wind farm could be worth £1.3bn over 35 years, so it wanted to ...

One morning this week, Hanna Koch was snorkeling in the Florida Keys when she came across a brown beer bottle on the sea floor. Koch, a marine biologist for Florida’s Monroe County, picked up the ...

Researchers were trawling the seafloor aboard icebreaker ship RSV Nuyina when they started bringing up a large variety of nightmarish deep-sea organisms. The ship is on a 60-day voyage across the ...

Bottom trawling for fish like sole and crustaceans and dredging to maintain harbors disrupts the seafloor, causing a cascade of chemical changes that reduce the ocean’s ability to sop up climate ...

STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian scientists captured a jelly-like, eyeless 'sea pig' and palm-sized spiders ...