Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

Due to the costs and the technology needed to explore at vast depths, only a few countries are equipped to scan the ocean floor. These countries include the United States, Japan, New Zealand ...

Through data on tectonic plate movement, glacial melt events, and ocean floor rock samples, the video makes a compelling case for the plausibility of a sunken landmass near the Azores. Evidence ...

Ships using sonar can also map abyssal hills, but it’s a slow and difficult task. To date, ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much more ...

A team of experts believes it could be close to unravelling the millennia-old myth of the Lost City of Atlantis and is launching an ... He says that by making a map of the ocean floor as it would have ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped ...

just north of the Azores. On Google Maps there is a streetview spot in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and it's just the bathroom aisle at a hardware store from r/Weird This looks to be the ...

It gives the Azores’ unique underwater ecosystems vital ... This involves dragging heavy fishing nets across the ocean floor, which destroys habitats and unleashes carbon stored beneath the ...

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...