60 Interesting Ocean Facts That'll Either Terrify You or Amaze You originally appeared on Parade. The ocean makes up the majority of the Earth's surface, so it makes sense that 95% of our seas are ...

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The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Considering how vast it is, scientists know relatively little about what's going on down there. On top of that, there are many popular ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

"These discoveries remind us that we still know so little about the ocean, the largest living space on Earth," said the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute A recently discovered deep-sea ...

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches The community of creatures were discovered during a dive into an ocean trench which forms between tectonic plates. The ...

Scientists aboard a research vessel near Antarctica pulled their nets out of the chilly ocean water. Among their catch, they found a 20-armed creature with a distinctive body shape. It’s a new species ...

Read on for some chilling curiosities from the creatures of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

The ocean makes up the majority of the Earth's surface, so it makes sense that 95% of our seas are still unknown to us—there's just so much to explore. And we know even less about the deepest parts, ...