Seafloor mapping is important for safe navigation, says Shannon Hoy, an expedition coordinator team lead with NOAA Ocean Exploration. It can also help scientists manage coral reefs, and in the future, ...

1:00 BC man accidentally captures underwater humpback whale feeding Kieley and his wife were diving off Ogden Point in Victoria on Sunday and were scouring the seafloor for octopus dens when they ...

The structure of the ocean floor is extremely vast and irregular. In 1948, when Marie Tharp started working at the Lamont Geological Laboratory, not much was known about the seafloor, which was ...

Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean ...

Awarded in recognition of the exceptional contribution Frans Lanting has made to nature photography and wildlife conservation, during a career spanning more than three decades. One evening during ...

Awarded in recognition of the exceptional contribution Frans Lanting has made to nature photography and wildlife conservation, during a career spanning more than three decades. I like to get eye to ...

While precise performance specs have yet to be released, a Beatbot representative tells us that the robot has a swimming speed close to that of a real sea turtle, and that it could conceivably ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology ... Marie deployed it to measure the depth of the seafloor. She painstakingly took sonar ...

"There's very little work that's been done to explore the deep sea. Less than 1 percent of the ocean seafloor has actually been imaged globally," says Brian Kennedy (CAS'23), who earned his Ph.D ...

The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?” Their locations below large water sources — including the western ...

and Antonin Guilbert—and a bold plan that would give them more time for exploration on the seafloor. They were inspired by divers on oil rigs who can quickly travel back and forth to the ocean ...

Giant isopods of the genus Bathynomus, which can reach more than 30 cm in length, are known as bọ biển or "sea bugs" in Vietnam. For the first time, one such species was described from ...