According to research published last year, the disappearance of the bone-eating, deep-sea zombie worm could be the result of ...

In this episode of Finding MH370, the search for the missing aircraft returns once more to the ocean floor. Investigators and ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

Until 1957, most of the public believed that the bottom of the ocean was a flat featureless expanse of sand, stretching endlessly around the globe. Then the first relief map of the Atlantic Ocean ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

A recent survey by scientists at Georgia's Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary used a drop camera to study the animals ...

The floor of the ocean off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has sprung a leak called Pythia's Oasis. Here's what that means ...

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behavior of two species of sea snakes that forage ...

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...