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 ...

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 ...

The ocean still holds many secrets. Despite technological advancements, the underwater relief remains less known than the ...

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 ...

In fact, it's twice the resolution of previous ocean-floor maps. Beautiful, no? And also useful. Photo: NASA, SWOT She and ...

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.

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