A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

Far beneath Antarctica’s ice and fringing seas, scientists have revealed a labyrinth of more than 300 hidden canyons that ...

Anzi Hu was identified on Monday as the seven-year-old who died in California after she was caught in a large wave at ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.

Most people have heard how melting sea ice and warming oceans are impacting polar environments, but a new study has found that these changes are having an additional knock-on effect for oceans, which ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...