The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) have spotted rare Antarctic squid, discovered ...

The latest finds of a deep-sea expedition off the Argentinian coast include a school-bus-sized ghostly jellyfish, a ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'. The tortuous system of deep craters and dolomite walls blows the Atlantic Ocean's ...

A deep‑sea mission off Argentina captured a rare phantom jellyfish and revealed the largest‑known Bathelia candida reef and major cold‑seep habitats.

A group of “rarely seen” Gervais’ beaked whales was recently spotted near Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago, photos show. Screengrab from the Magic Dolphin ecotour agency A mysterious group of ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...