Tsunami's Deadly Toll on Indian Ocean Sea Life NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about how the recent tsunami severely damaged sea life ...

Yi-Kai Tea recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean. They gathered thousands of specimens.

Newly discovered sea creatures were found at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. A blind eel, deep-sea batfishes, spider fish, and others were all discovered and revealed on a seafloor in Australia.

KidsPost Exploring the Indian Ocean’s ‘Midnight Zone’ There’s hardly any light, but life does exist. Scientists want to know how it’s faring.

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 220,000 people across 12 countries.

The Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) is a 1.2 million-square-mile (3 million square kilometers) depression found 746 miles (1,200 kilometers) southwest of India.

More information: Jean‐Pascal Quod et al, Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island, Ecology (2024). DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4476 ...

People attend a prayer at the Siron mass grave, one of the two major mass burial sites where victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were laid to rest, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Dec. 26, 2024.