Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...

When we think of marine life, we usually picture colorful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other ...

At several hundred metres below the surface, the limestone caves around Minamidaito Island are mostly untouched by sunlight, currents, and routine marine surveys. The landscape is narrow, uneven, and ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

Nearly 400 meters beneath the ocean surface, a robotic vehicle exploring an underwater cave captured a brief pulse of green ...

The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, has a blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest color in nature.

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For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Camp Callan anti-aircraft training along the La Jolla coastline during World War II, where U.S. Army troops practiced coastal defense above La Jolla Shores. The site, active from 1941 to 1945, played ...