New research has uncovered massive “megaripples,” some towering 52 feet high, stretching across the ocean floor. These ...

A dredger pumps sand to reclaim land in Sri Lanka Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, endangering marine life and coastal communities, the UN says.

An animal that burrowed horizontally through the sea floor might have made these linear holes, says a marine zoologist Credit: NOAA At over 8,000 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists ...

Big waves from hurricanes like Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy last October or even nor’easters like one that ...

Deep sea researchers have discovered a whole new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents in the ocean floor. Hydrothermal ... and in the ocean of animals living in sand and mud, but for the ...

A sand octopus has been filmed wriggling its tentacles to create a burrow into the ocean floor and disappearing as a disguise technique to hide from its predators. Marine biologist Jules Casey ...

Using suction-cup sensors attached to three humpback whales, researchers captured video footage of the animals rolling around on the ocean floor ... rolling in the sand—and even showed their ...

Officials for years have been cleaning up tire after tire from the ocean floor off Broward County ... tires are partially or fully buried in the sand. That makes them heavy to pull out because ...

GENEVA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Around 6 billion tons of marine sand is being dug up each year in a growing practice that a U.N. agency said is unsustainable and can wipe out local marine life ...