The discovery of D. camanchaca is groundbreaking not only because of its predatory nature but also because it represents a ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

But the size of the shelf and how quickly it descends towards the deepest parts of the ocean, known as the abyssal plain, varies from place to place. Early oceanographers thought the ocean bottom ...

A recent deep-sea expedition into the Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean led to an astonishing discovery: a massive Pacific ...

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists ...

They then incubated those samples at deep ocean temperatures that are currently predicted for the end of this century. "This deep 'abyssal' ocean covers 60% of our planet and we're finding that ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years.

An international team of scientists have finally explored where no other human has gone before — into the ocean abyss off Australia's eastern coast. The month-long expedition was sponsored by ...

A strange relationship has been observed between the shell and a passenger that rides on its back. Find out more.