According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found an unexpected surge of the radioactive ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Genetic material recovered from sediment beneath the sea floor reveals ancient species ... the abyssal plains in the middle of the South Atlantic, a barren patch of ocean floor 5,000 meters below the ...

Learn how time scales for objects thousands versus millions of years old could be better synchronized.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, ...

The heavy ocean floor north of India acted like a giant ... almost entirely closed over the intervening ocean, squeezing the sediments on the ocean foor. Since the sediments were lightweight ...

As the organic material degrades and the oxygen decreases in the sediment, invertebrates take advantage of the new environment. But it’s not only creatures living on the ocean floor that this ...