The largest shark is a whale shark, which can reach 60 feet in length and weigh 20.6 tons. The megalodon is the largest shark ...

The smallest ocean basin on Earth is the Arctic Ocean, which has an area of approximately 6.1 million square miles, according to the National Ocean Service. But what about the largest?

The open ocean is teeming with microbial small RNAs that regulate a multitude of environmental processes ranging from carbon metabolism to nutrient acquisition ...

The earliest whales are said to have roamed the Earth 50 million years ago.Despite what you may think, the earliest ancestor of the whale was a land-walking mammal called the Pakicetus.. Even ...

SCIENCE Only big whales can lunge-feed successfully, according to a study on minke whales, the ocean’s smallest giant Minke whales have the smallest possible body size to lunge feed successfully ...

Then, as life recovered, the oceans offered possibilities that had not been open for over 180 million years—waters virtually free of large predators. There, early whales could take the ...

Sharks come in all shapes and sizes. The minuscule dwarf lantern shark is the smallest shark alive, being smaller than the human hand, according to Smithsonian. The aptly named megamouth can weigh ...