The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

The octopuses eat the tissues in the jellyfish's body, or bell, and then pull the prey's stinging tentacles along behind them ...

"There is strong justification for continued optimism regarding the potential for extraterrestrial life," said one of the ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...

Arm Octopus' was spotted near Monterey Bay, USA. Seen only four times in 40 years, it continues to baffle scientists ...

Along the Atlantic seaboard, more than 135 million Americans live in a zone where the ocean is no longer rising steadily but is poised to climb in abrupt, uneven surges as a key Atlantic current ...

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...