Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...
A giant shark vertebra missing since 1989 is rediscovered in storage after being mistaken for junk, confirming the ancient ...
From Jules Verne-inspired submarines to NASA-backed underwater habitats, the dream of an undersea civilization came closer ...
Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.
Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...
Where did the name “Atlantic Ocean” actually come from? The answer leads back to ancient Greek mythology, early maps, and ...
Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur. These structures are normally linked to microbial mats in shallow ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars — thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard. These graveyards form when ...
Lose the sea ice, the thinking goes, and the ocean beneath it transforms almost overnight – with one set of creatures swapped for another as the white cover pulls back. The Arctic is sliding toward ...
NEW YORK -- Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life -- including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars -- thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard. These graveyards form when ...
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis. Credit: Xiaotong Peng / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Scientists have discovered a massive whale necropolis deep beneath the Indian Ocean, at depths reaching nearly ...