The discovery of buried "mud waves" off the coast of western Africa reveals that the Atlantic Ocean was born at least 4 million years earlier than scientists previously thought. These waves, each ...

The mud waves were buried beneath sediment over 117 million years, the researchers found. (Image credit: courtesy of D Duarte et al/Heriot-Watt University) Over the eons, more sediment has buried ...

Every year, the researchers survey 50 spots, some of which have been monitored since 1989. When the boat reaches a site, the researchers drop equipment down to the Sound floor, scooping a chunk of ...

The underwater volcano Borealis Mud Volcano is located in the Barents Sea and was first discovered by researchers at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2023. The discovery received a lot of ...