A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...
The discovery of D. camanchaca is groundbreaking not only because of its predatory nature but also because it represents a ...
A recent deep-sea expedition into the Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean led to an astonishing discovery: a massive Pacific ...
The ocean still holds many secrets. Despite technological advancements, the underwater relief remains less known than the ...
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 ...
By one count America spends 150 times more on space exploration than ocean research. Scientists have mapped almost every ...
To investigate life on the abyssal ocean floor, Katrin Linse and colleagues on board the RV Sonne used a small net, known as an Agassiz trawl which can be deployed thousands of meters deep ...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...