Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

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Explore the ocean's extreme depths, where vent worms and extremophile bacteria thrive in scorching heat and crushing pressure ...

From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of ...

In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.