Scientists have begun harnessing the powerful, low-frequency songs of whales to map the ocean floor—a technique that promises to transform our understanding of underwater topography while ... testing ...

The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of the Pacific Ocean floor, is slowly moving west. As its western edge gets pushed down into the Earth’s mantle near places like Japan and New Zealand ...

Is The Pacific Ocean Floor Being Ripped Apart? Posted: April 29, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025 Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how ...

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says. The Douglas SBD ...

Majestic humpback whale breaching in the Pacific Ocean ... often closely tied to seafloor topography, which influences nutrient upwelling and food availability. By simultaneously studying whale ...

But after analyzing two sets of ferromanganese crust samples collected from Pacific Ocean floor drill sites, Koll and colleagues at the TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Australian ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on Earth. (Representative Image: iStock) No matter how many times you've been on a plane-whether it's once or a hundred times-that aerial view of the Earth ...

They found evidence that naturally occurring “battery rocks” on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, some 13,000 feet below the surface, were producing oxygen. These potato-sized lumps of metal ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT ... About 85% of the Pacific Ocean floor and 50% of the Atlantic Ocean floor are covered by underwater hills (topographic features) that rise hundreds ...

Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and ... Of the 71 percent of the Earth’s surface that is ocean floor, only 26 percent of it has been mapped with the ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute of California filmed the never-before-seen seamount, which stretches 1.9 miles towards the surface from the Pacific Ocean floor and features a thriving ...