WASHINGTON – The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...
New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...
We have all seen them in reproductions, those maps of a geographically naive world in which the waves of immeasurable oceans are populated by fearsome creatures. What may not have crossed our minds is ...
Over the years, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have employed all sorts of maps of the ocean, from the seafloor bottom to oceanic currents. Now a new type of map is ...
The name South China Sea remains visible to the north and west of the area newly identified as the West Philippine Sea - Copyright AFP Jamillah STA. ROSA The name ...
Rising sea levels reshape coastal areas faster than expected. Natural defenses fall behind and old seafloor maps hid ...
If climate models are correct, then Hurricane Sandy, and the flooding it brought, gave us a gentle preview of the not-so-distant future. A recent NASA study found that between 1992 and 2012, global ...
One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant sea-serpent attacks a ship off the coast of Norway on Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina of 1539, this image from the 1572 edition. WASHINGTON — ...
WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...