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Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.
Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...
In one of the most powerful scenes of Sir David Attenborough's new film Ocean, the audience sees industrial ... the harrows farmers use to break up soil on ploughed fields) drag along the seabed ...
Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull ... being pushed apart in part by magma rising up from deep in the Earth, creating a measurable ...
Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...
This geographical phenomenon, known as the Eastern African Rift (EARS), is believed to have initiated around 22 million years ...
Scientists have discovered giant mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean around 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, a country in west Africa ... put a new date on the opening of ...
From deck officer to advocate, Koni Duniya takes up the battle for gender equality in West Africa’s maritime industry ...
After living on the planet for nearly 100 years, David Attenborough has shared the life lesson he has learned in new ... the ocean, the challenges it faces and the chance for restoration. It ...
Among the other species added to the largest land-based aquarium in Africa are the stars-and-stripes ... Indo-Pacific (the Indian and Pacific Ocean). It is known for having a “huge personality” and ...
Scientists say East Africa is slowly splitting along a tectonic rift, potentially forming a new ocean over millions of years.