It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

The depths of the ocean are strewn with curious nodules that are rich in manganese, copper, cobalt and nickel. Special devices may make it possible to mine the bottom for these valuable substances ...

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...

The ocean floor can be flat or it can have caves and mountains. The weather can be very extreme on the oceans. There can be very high winds and huge waves.

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped, which means we know less about 71 percent of the Earth’s landscape than about the far side of the Moon. That’s a lot of ...

"Our major discovery here is that life in the deepest parts of our oceans is more diverse than it is in the ocean floor areas ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...

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These make the animal more stable on the ocean floor. But are you a deep-sea enthusiast? Explore the inky depths in our expert-led, online and on-demand course Deep Sea, available now. From ...

Three centuries ago, the English attacked a Spanish treasure fleet off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. During the attack, the San José, carrying an estimated 20 billion dollars worth of gold ...