Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown—an uncharted territory, hidden from view. That all changed thanks to ...

Building the definitive map of Earth's ocean floor means collating colossal volumes ... High-resolution mapping was recently conducted in an Atlantic Ocean canyon to understand why sediment ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered ... a photo gallery and interactive map of the division's finds.

Almost five years of studying the deep Atlantic in ... say we have better maps of the surface of the Moon and Mars than of the sea floor." "So whenever you go to the deep ocean, you find something ...

"Detailed contour maps of the ocean floor were classified by the US Navy ... the quakes snaked along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where she'd found the rift. Tharp was then able to use other seismic ...

The Equator splits the Pacific Ocean into two parts: The North Pacific and the South Pacific. The world’s second largest ocean is the Atlantic Ocean ... The ocean floor can be flat or it ...

The oil industry seeks federal permits to do seismic testing even in areas where offshore drilling is currently prohibited, including the Atlantic Ocean and eastern Gulf ... the echoes off the sea ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab ... animals flip if overturned and acts as a rudder as they move across the ocean floor. Horseshoe crabs molt their distinctive shells about 17 times before ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...