A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor ...

This elusive creature from the deep sea, known to scientists as Bathyphysa conifera, floated with pink-tipped, filamentous ...

Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa, named after the Scripps family group that helped fund the study, has a pentagonal body and ...

Researchers at the Ocean Exploration Trust are pushing the frontiers of this wilderness, which lies more than 3,000 meters below the waves, and the best part is, anyone can watch the exploration.

Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery ... can be found in colonies near hot, mineral-rich water and don't eat – bacteria in their system transforms ...

Oct. 21, 2024 — A new modeling study shows that the El Nino event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the globe, was present ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A new study details how climate change transforms coastal wetlands in North Carolina from forest to marshland or even open water, and how satellite imagery may help better direct ...

Surfers know that the Pacific Ocean water temperature can fluctuate wildly throughout the year. While the spring and summer hold the wildest swings of all, the winter months are also subject to ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A man set sail on a historic 8-month journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Diego to Australia in a solo rowing boat Monday night. If he succeeds, 44-year-old Aurimas ...

La Niña is a natural climate pattern marked by cooler-than-average seawater in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. When the water cools at least 0.9 degree Fahrenheit below average for three ...