Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on Earth, but just how big is it really? Covering over 63 million square miles (165 million square kilometers), it’s larger than all the continents ...

The fourth hole at Torrey Pines' South Course is one of those obvious places. Standing on the tee, you clearly see that there ...

Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

Sea turtles are incredible cute creatures that also know their way around a map, at least a magnetic “map” in the oceans they traverse through their lives. That’s according to new research published ...

This new research provides the first concrete evidence that loggerhead turtles hone this remarkable ability. This superpower ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

Popular map services such as Google Maps, Apple Maps and Bing Maps have all changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America ...

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

Night - Cloudy with a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds SSE at 8 mph (12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 44 °F (6.7 °C). Cloudy with a high of 49 °F (9.4 °C) and a 56% chance of ...

The National Hurricane Center's website and maps now reflect the official name (at least in the U.S.) of the Gulf of America.