The last time a new ocean was formally identified was in 2021, when the National Geographic Society officially recognized the water around Antarctica as the Southern Ocean, separa ...

Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa indicates the existing oceans may one day spill into the growing rift, severing a small portion of the continent from the greater ...

MiCO database reveals how marine animals traverse oceans, connecting distant regions and impacting conservation efforts.

It covers about a third of the Earth. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the continents of Asia and Oceania on the east, to North and South America on the west. It also stretches across both sides ...

Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ... with a brand-new ocean forming in between. How slow is “slow”?

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...