An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea...
A cataclysm 50 million years ago changed the face of the planet from the Hawaiian Islands to Antarctica, according to new research. The collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean...
With a fearsome grin fit for a movie monster, this viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world's most remote locations.
An international team of 31 researchers found this...
More than a mile beneath the Atlantic's surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust...
Veiled by more than a mile of ice, an expanse of heavily scoured mountains and valleys in Greenland has remained out of sight until now.
Using a new radar technique, scientists have constructed...
A new United Nations report says the fishing practice known as bottom trawling is destroying irreplaceable coral and underwater mountains, and it says the damage cannot be repaired.
Some...