A 2020 satellite photo shows the immense power of 7-story waves crashing along the Portuguese coast. Later the same day, a ...

Sea Monsters Unearthed, a Smithsonian Museum traveling exhibit, will be at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum from January 31 ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

Long before familiar marine life existed, massive predators dominated Earth’s oceans, leaving behind an incomplete fossil ...

A mysterious 1978 incident involving the USS Stein and an unidentified sea creature still puzzles scientists and the U.S. Navy nearly fifty years later.

In the heart of California’s Death Valley, summer temperatures soar past 120°F (49°C). But while most life quickly collapses, one native plant is just okay with it impossible. Tidestromia oblongifolia ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is famously known for taking that superlative, even though some parts of Antarctica are technically even drier (they don't count because who is going there?!). Officially, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one ...

In the middle of the North Atlantic, far from any coastline, lies a sea with no land boundaries. Instead of being framed by continents, its edges are defined by four major currents circling in a wide ...

Bear Lake, which straddles the states of Idaho and Utah, seen from a distance. Visible is the unique aquamarine color of its waters due to minerals. Photo: kla4067 via Wikimedia Commons. The BoiseDev ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --A British rowing team competing in an Atlantic Ocean endurance challenge stopped to rescue a large sea turtle they found entangled in a discarded net. The members of the ...

As companies hunt for metals in the depths of the ocean, scientists are taking inventory of every species that lives there. Mining the deep sea involves a suction mechanisms that could disturb or ...