Their location at the bottom of the ocean makes these muddy deposits notoriously difficult to map. Furthermore, contemporary sedimentary deposits do not necessarily stem from modern conditions ...

“The Indian Ocean is one of the least explored areas.” Bell is the founding director of the Ocean Discovery League in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, a nonprofit organization that is helping to ...

NEW YORK, May 8: A recent study has revealed that we have a far clearer view of Mars than we do of our own ocean floor, and the disparity is even greater than many might think. The study, published in ...

LURKING beneath the ocean's surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, new research has revealed that scientists have observed just 0.001% of ...

to finally map every ocean. Just over a quarter of the oceans’ floor has been mapped, which is small, but a significant increase from the 6 percent that it was in 2017. Still, there is an even ...

Yet despite decades of exploration, a study published in Science Advances has shown we still don't know what is lurking in 99.999 per cent of the deep ocean. Since 1958, 44,000 dives have only ...

Trawler fishing sees huge ships storm across the water, dragging giant nets and chains across the ocean floor, wiping out entire ancient ecosystems in minutes. Areas as large as the Amazon ...

‘Even so, with these technologies, you’d only get a basic map of the ocean floor. You'd have no idea what was living there at all, unless you went down and looked. We've understood more in the past ...

They used advanced satellite observations to create a high-resolution map of the ocean floor that shows nearly 100,000 such structures. David Sandwell from Scripps Institution of Oceanography was part ...