oceans

    We may never know the full extent of the ocean’s many mysteries, but we’re always guaranteed to be confronted with something unexpected. Case in point: A recent discovery of a rock formation that bears a strong resemblance to the Yellow Brick Road from Th...

    Glacier National Park, established May 11, 1910, boasts over a million acres of America’s most awe-inspiring wilderness. More than 3 million people visited its snow-covered peaks in 2021, making Glacier the 27th-most-visited park in the national park syst...

    Today, most governments and geographers acknowledge five named oceans. You’ve got the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Southern. Like five fingers on the same hand, they’re all part of the unified World Ocean, covering 71 percent of ...

    Robert Edwin Peary, called "one of the greatest of all explorers," claimed to have been the first person to reach the North Pole on April 6, 1909. But from the moment his achievement was announced to the world, Peary was mired in a controversy tha...

    SMART NEWSNew ResearchAfter Centuries of Searching, Scientists Finally Find the Mysterious Giant Shipworm AliveThe three-foot long creature has long eluded scientists, but they finally got a closer lookThe giant shipworm, out of its tubeMarvin AltamiaThe ...

    The lunar cycle lasts between 29 and 30 days, which means we typically see one full moon and one new moon per month. But that isn't always the case. The second full moon that appears in a single calendar month is called a blue moon, and new moons that...

    The Titanic is one of the most famous shipwrecks on the seafloor, but for decades following the 1912 disaster, its debris remained undetected. It took a secret Cold War Navy mission to find two unrelated vessels to finally pinpoint the doomed ship's l...

    When they're not collecting important observations of marine environments, the researchers at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) know how to have fun. That's evidenced by this video recently reported by Nerdist. In the clip below, a BI...

    Geography experts agree on which country boasts the most coastal mileage. With shores extending along the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific oceans, Canada claims the title of world's longest coastline. While that fact isn't disputed, the exact size of...

    SMART NEWSVirologists Identify More Than 5,000 New Viruses in the OceanThe new study focused on under-researched RNA viruses, which often infect animals and humans Mapping out where these RNA viruses are found globally can help scientists understand...

    Ice boating can be traced back to 2,000 BCE, where hints of the sport were found in present-day Scandinavia. A leader in the ice boating community tells us why hard water sailing continues to captivate his attention. Host:Lee RayburnGuest(s):Daniel...

    How do waves even get this big?(Yuta Onoda)ByKayla ElamSmithsonian Magazine| SubscribeSeptember 2014The biggest, baddest waves aren’t born that way. Winds at sea generate waves that average ten feet high; during storms, 30-footers are common. B...

    Something wicked this way comes.ankarb/iStock via Getty ImagesThe morning of June 26, 1828, dawned bright and full of promise over southern Ireland’s Cork Harbor. Brawny longshoremen heaved crates to and fro with casual ease, chattering gulls swoope...

    iStock / zoom-zoomThere more than 100 bodies of water in the world that are either officially named seas or commonly referred to that way. When someone talks about sailing the “seven seas,” which particular seven are they referring to?It depends on...

    Today on The Daily Dispatch we've discovered a gigantic ocean 700 km below the Earth's surface. Need more? How about the ongoing train wreck that is Donald Sterling's NBA dealings? Sterling has apparently hired four private investigators to...

    Something wicked this way comes.ankarb/iStock via Getty ImagesThe morning of June 26, 1828, dawned bright and full of promise over southern Ireland’s Cork Harbor. Brawny longshoremen heaved crates to and fro with casual ease, chattering gulls swoope...

    iStock / zoom-zoomThere more than 100 bodies of water in the world that are either officially named seas or commonly referred to that way. When someone talks about sailing the “seven seas,” which particular seven are they referring to?It depends on...

    MBA archiveThe world’s oldest message in a bottle has been recovered by a former postal worker vacationing in Amrum, an island off the coast of northern Germany. The bottle was released into the North Sea as part of a research experiment more than...

    MBA archiveThe world’s oldest message in a bottle has been recovered by a former postal worker vacationing in Amrum, an island off the coast of northern Germany. The bottle was released into the North Sea as part of a research experiment more than...

    In 1845, the English explorer Sir John Franklin set off with two ships for the Arctic, hoping to find the Northwest Passage, a route through northern Canada that would allow ships to sail straight from the North Atlantic to the Pacific. Both ships an...