Earthquake scientists studying a fault off Oregon’s coast have figured out a new way to map the layers of sediment and rock under the ocean floor. They did it using whale song inadvertently ...

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...

Newport's Ocean to Bay Trail is a roughly five-mile journey from Agate Beach State Recreation Site to Yaquina Bay. Opened in the early 2000s, the trail saw rejuvenation efforts about a year-and-a ...

A fin whale is seen in the Pacific Ocean. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images) Scientists trying to map the Pacific Ocean floor got an unexpected assist from the world's second-largest mammal.

Hot, mineral-laden seawater is gushing out of the ocean floor about 50 miles off the coast of Newport. It’s at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, in a site known as a seep.

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT ...

Scientists attach video cameras to sea lions to map the ocean floor. August 9, 2024 3:00 AM ET. By . Regina G. Barber , Berly McCoy , Ailsa Chang , Hannah Chinn , Kai McNamee ...