Last year, INSTAAR lost one of the people who helped shape the institute into what it is today. Former INSTAAR research librarian and polar climate data expert Martha Andrews passed away peacefully at ...

A few strange pits and trails preserved in ancient Italian rocks have changed what scientists thought they knew about the earliest vertebrate fossils from the deep ocean. Dating back 130 million years ...

The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the fossil record. Whole body fish ...

Scientists have traced the fish genus Cyclothone much further back in time by studying tiny teeth preserved in seafloor sediments. According to Yale News, the evidence suggests this group of fish ...

For millions of years, an ancient coral reef has been buried underneath the Australian outback. New fossil discoveries could ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis. The life that does survive in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center and Inkfish Scientists have gotten their first ...

Researchers have uncovered more than 400 fossilized whale bones in an ocean-floor chasm. Plus, the working lives of scientists, in pictures, and how AI could slow the pace of research publication for ...

A new study details a whale necropolis stretching over 750 miles of seafloor in the southeastern Indian Ocean. Across 33 dives, a team of scientists discovered 476 whale fossils, five carcasses, and ...

The second day of my journey around Suruga Bay. The previous day, I visited Awashima Marine Park and Izu Mito Sea Paradise, ...

For more than 170 years, paleontologists have been trying to solve the mystery of what created the strangely uniform hexagonal tunnels found in fossils. In a new study published in Earth Science ...