Researchers are using a 3D map of the ocean to get a detailed understanding of life beneath the surface, a breakthrough that could help preserve the fragile ecosystems that basically keep the entire ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explore ...

The post Inside the Ocean’s Nerve Center: How 100 Species Collide on a Single Map appeared first on A-Z Animals. Migration patterns are diverse. Green turtles tend to stay within a single ocean basin ...

Using satellite data, a new topographic map of the ocean's floor created by scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography outlines areas of the ocean we have never seen before. This new map ...

Miles beneath the sea is a landscape of seamounts, hills and ridges, much of it unexplored or hidden under layers of muck. A team of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla ...

Maps are drawn to tell us about the ways in which mankind has shaped the landscape by building things like roads, canals and cities. Those maps often leave the world's oceans all but blank. But now a ...

Early-career scientists at Rutgers lead an ambitious expedition to study ocean mixing and its role in sustaining life and ...

A scuba diver swims in the coral reefs of Palau. Beneath the depths that humans can dive, natural wonder and a better understanding of our planet awaits. Carlos Villoch / Alamy Earth has no shortage ...

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...

Oceanographers are carving up the world’s seas like the last of the holiday turkey. A new 3D map sorts global water masses—from deep, frigid circumpolar waters to the oxygen-starved Black Sea—into 37 ...