A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Experience one of nature’s most mesmerizing spectacles: the migration of spider crabs. Watch as thousands of these armored ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...

OMG...I Found GOLD and DIAMONDS On The Ocean Floor With My Metal Detector!!! I went scuba diving with my underwater metal ...

Glowing red lobsters, octopus gardens, towering tree-like corals and glass sponges that are thousands of years old make up ...

A battle is heating up over the extraction of minerals from seabeds and Beijing needs allies to win it, researchers say.

A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously thought. The study has important implications for understanding the origin of ...

ReefGen is deploying semi-autonomous underwater seagrass planting machines to help repopulate the habitat that serves as a nursery for many marine species and functions as a carbon sink.

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third time in a decade to glimpse the life still clinging to a whale’s ...

03:01 Tin mining of seabeds off Indonesia threatens fishing and the environment Tin mining of seabeds off Indonesia threatens fishing and the environment The ocean floor is shaping up to be the ...