New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

From the Arctic to the Southern, the five ocean basins are home to thousands of marine life and millions of square miles of water. The smallest ocean basin on Earth is the Arctic Ocean ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...

When rifting is successful, the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully ...

The 12-million-gallon basin can replicate any ocean wave situation in the world, which is ideal for testing equipment and scale models of boats. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Military ...

An excavator has reopened the ocean inlet to San Elijo Lagoon, helping to remove water that was backing up and flooding area ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...