A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space. The photo has been changed so we can see all of the earth’s surface in one picture. The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean.

and North Pacific Ocean to the west. South America touches the southeast border of the continent. Demographically North America is the fourth biggest continents after Asia, Africa and Europe. World's ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought. A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through the major oceans of the world. It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953, American physicists Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) and Bruce Heezen ...

To the Ends of the Earth: The Natural World - Oceans is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

Scott recently became the fastest person to scuba dive in all seven continents, according to Guinness World Records ... who never saw themselves in the ocean, every diver who felt like the ...