Recent dredging operations off the coast of Java have uncovered fossil evidence that reshapes what scientists thought they ...

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden history beneath the waves.

According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean seafloor is defined as depths of 200 meters or more below Earth’s surface, where oxygen ...

But one feature, the massive Ontong Java Plateau in the mid-Pacific Ocean, stood out as ... near Wake Island—where the seafloor holds some of the Pacific’s oldest volcanic secrets—Finlayson ...

A massive stone monolith has been found protruding from the Pacific Ocean seafloor like a giant finger ... Closer inspection revealed the black crust was shiny and the rock had “a forest ...

One of the key indicators has been whether or not fragments of oceanic crust, generated at sea-floor spreading centers, are preserved in the planet's oldest crust. New research integrating what has ...

Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ...

Researchers previously knew that giant tubeworms and other creatures lived on the seafloor. "To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust," marine ...

A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean ... which are openings on the seafloor that form where seawater and magma beneath the Earth's crust meet, Monika Bright ...

In an unexpected twist, metal-rich nodules found on the seafloor are generating oxygen, new research suggests. This meager but steady supply of the vital gas may help support seafloor ecosystems ...

Here’s how it works. Over 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from Earth's mantle wrenched apart the crust in Mongolia, creating an ocean that survived for 115 million years.