A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

An international team of geologists and seismologists has created a refined map of Zealandia, the submerged continent beneath the Pacific Ocean. Using data from rock samples and seismic analysis ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square ...

About 3,500 feet under the south Pacific waves sits a lost eighth continent. Scientists confirmed that the submerged land mass, named Zealandia, was its own continent in 2017. But they hadn't been ...

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

Ocean garbage A new atlas of the world's oceans points the finger at countries responsible for giant floating patches of garbage, say researchers. By redefining the boundaries of the world's ...

In the deep South Pacific ocean lies a lost continent that, up until a few years ago, was undiscovered by man. You’ve likely been taught that there are 7 continents on Earth. However, now there ...

It's commonly thought great white sharks are found more in the Atlantic Ocean than the Pacific, but while there may be more tagged sharks, there certainly aren't "less" sharks. And scientists have ...