A positive feedback loop may have driven carbon sequestration within the deep Pacific and shaped a cooling climate over ...

One of the ocean’s most mysterious predators has finally been captured on camera in its natural deep sea environment. The ...

More than 12,000 microscopic fossils recovered from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks in northern Australia are offering scientists ...

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

Long before animals or plants existed in Earth's oceans, a sea that is hard to imagine today stretched across northern ...

Plesiosaurs swam into river deltas to vomit up shells and other indigestible elements of their marine meals, suggests new ...

New sediment tests from a research vessel in the Red Sea suggest that primordial deep-sea microbes may offer a glimpse of how life made energy before Earth had oxygen.

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 ...

New research suggests plesiosaurs ate shellfish from the seafloor, then swam to river deltas to bring up the parts they ...

The coal feeding a steel mill in China may trace its origins to a peat bog that stopped accumulating plant matter more than ...

Aliko Dangote’s decision to build a $16 billion oil refinery in Kenya raises an obvious question at a time when the global ...

(David Merron Photography/Moment RF/Getty Images) Every winter, Antarctica roughly doubles in size as sea ice locks into place over the ocean. Typically, Breid Bay in East Antarctica is entirely ...