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Each year, gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) complete one of the most impressive journeys in the animal kingdom. They ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg have investigated the composition of ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile ...