Randall Munroe's xkcd comic today is a chart s...  ...a chart showing the relative depths of lakes and ocean features. It's best seen at full size. In the sma...

James Cameron's dive to the deepest part of the Ma...  ...n years old. Seafloor is formed as lava at mid- ocean ridges. When it's fresh, lava is comparatively wa...

This is easily the most beau...  ...ou'll see today: here's "Perpetual Ocean ," a visualization of the Earth's ocean surface currents around from June 2005...

The amount of a specific type of ocean water in the depths around Antarctica is shrinkin...  ...re it spreads northward, filling most of the deep ocean around the world as it slowly mixes with warmer w...  ...ith warmer waters above it. The world’s deep ocean currents play...

You're looking at a "supergia...  ...at the Kermadec Trench off New Zealand, at an ocean depth of over 4 miles. Deep sea amphipo...  ...Alan Jamieson, from the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab , said: "It's a bit like finding...

Venice is sinking very slowly -only about two inches every 100 years. But worse, the Adriatic sea is rising around Venice as well. A proposed plan to save the Italian city involves "inflating" its porous foundation with...

I've lived by the ocean my whole life and have visited the ocean over and over, but I've never seen a wave from th...

David Neivandt, a professor at the University of Maine, and Alex Caddell, an undergraduate student there, have developed a golf ball made from the shells of lobsters. Though biodegradable golf balls already exist, this...

This creature is called the Flower Hat Jellyfish. The name alone draws a picture! It is found off the coasts of Japan, Argentina, and Brazil. Its tentacles coil up when not in use, which makes them look like bouquets of...

Animals that live underwater as so different they never fail to astound us. Marine invertebrates may flop like jelly when we see them on land, but in their own environment they can be as rigid as they need to be, tha...