The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

In the narrow strait between Jura and Scarba, the sea does strange things. Standing waves barrel over phantom surf breaks.

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Google said it would rename the body of water to “Gulf of America” after it is updated in the U.S. government system in ...

Fishermen helped Coast Guard crewmembers rescue four Americans who were stranded on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic, officials said Wednesday. David Potts ...

Now, it appears that it is moving with the prevailing current toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. “It is presently in a meander of the current and ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers.

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

Brits are bracing themselves for another icy blast, as maps from WXCharts predict a snowy start to February. On Friday, February 7, at 6pm, the UK is expected to be blanketed by both snow and rain ...