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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists say East Africa is slowly splitting along a tectonic rift, potentially forming a new ocean over millions of years. The process, while gradual, offers rare insight into how continents ...
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 ...
At the most recent round of Indian Ocean tuna talks ... emailed to Mongabay. The new restrictions on wire leaders will take effect in 2028, provided no parties come up with research showing ...
These are the images that open “Ocean ... how the ocean has changed during his lifetime. “Over the last hundred years, scientists and explorers have revealed remarkable new species, epic ...