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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...