There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million years ago?

The Chipmunk Shark was believed to have swam along the ocean floor that is said to have covered much of central Kentucky ...

According to the discovery, oxygen is produced by metallic rocks present at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Andrew Sweetman's team researched the ocean floor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

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 ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

This ocean is entirely gone today, although the sedimentary rocks that settled on its ocean floor and the volcanoes that fringed its edges remain to tell the tale of its existence. To understand ...