The large nerve cord that runs along each octopus arm is divided into segments, allowing for precise movement control and ...

In the narrow strait between Jura and Scarba, the sea does strange things. Standing waves barrel over phantom surf breaks.

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

Fishermen helped Coast Guard crewmembers rescue four Americans who were stranded on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic, officials said Wednesday. David Potts ...

Now, it appears that it is moving with the prevailing current toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. “It is presently in a meander of the current and ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers.

NV5, the world’s leading provider of geospatial software and services, is marking 20 years of providing valuable geospatial ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

Maps from WXCHARTS show on Friday 7 February at 6pm, snow and rain will hit the UK with Scotland and the west coast of England to be most heavily impacted. In Scotland, up to 2cm of snowfall per ...