In a discovery that may further our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth, a research team, including associate professor Andrew Palmer and master's student Caitlyn Hubric ...

Scientists studying a remote part of the ocean floor off the coast of Central and South America say they've made an extraordinary discovery 2,500 metres below sea level — a diverse ecosystem of ...

Courtesy of Town of Nantucket Harbormaster GE Vernova, headquartered in Cambridge, told the Nantucket Select Board Chair that they dispatched two vessels to retrieve debris from the ocean floor on ...

The team did their investigation about 8,250 feet (2,515 meters) beneath the sea on a stretch of ocean floor they nicknamed the Fava Flow Suburbs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. “Our discovery ...

Hydrothermal vents are cracks in the ocean floor that release hot, mineral-rich water into the deep sea. They form when seawater seeps into Earth’s crust in areas where tectonic plates are eithe ...

The locomotion of a Grimpoteuthis octopus. (Villanueva et al., Marine Biology, 2024) But there could be a bit more to it. We've also seen related cirrate octopuses hopping along the ocean floor in a ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ocean waters over the last four decades. Scientists say ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it. An eelpout swims by a tower of ...

The post warned that plunging waves can slam beachgoers into the ocean floor and that waves can easily knock a person off their feet. A separate system will bring elevated winds to the region ...

A volcanically active ridge, the extensive rise occurs where two tectonic plates meet on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor ...

And that, in turn, means that the organisms in the marine snow may emit more waste and therefore store less carbon on the ocean floor than accounted for by existing models used to study the planet ...