Europa’s orbit is an ellipse, and the satellite’s shape is affected by Jupiter’s gravity, becoming deformed when it passes closer to Jupiter. This change in shape creates friction inside Europa, generating enormous amounts of heat in a mechanism known as tidal heating, which melts some of the ice and forms a vast internal ocean beneath […]
Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The first time Marlon Brando saw Tetiaroa in the early 1960s, all he could make out was a “slender pencil of land” on the horizon in the South Pacific. Later, during a break from filming Mutiny on the Bounty, he hired a fisherman to ferry him to the atoll and realized […]
By Alex Fox Photograph by Shane Gross Hawksbill sea turtles happily flap through the world’s tropical oceans with bellies full of glass-like fragments. Researchers examining the turtles’ digestive tracts would be wise to take care not to slice their hands on shards of the mineral silica that form the skeletons of sea sponges, a mainstay […]
Canada’s TableTop Group entered the New York market with a grand space named Oceans. TableTop Group; Emily Andrews There is a long tradition of seafood restaurants of grand size, especially in the U.S. and even more so in New York, starting with the Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant and extending to Lundy’s of Brooklyn […]
PORTLAND, Maine — The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is likely to bring big changes for one of the oldest sectors of the U.S. economy — seafood — and some in the industry believe the returning president will be more responsive to its needs. Economic analysts paint a more complicated picture, as they fear […]
A male humpback whale crossed at least three oceans in search of sex, a new study shows. The whale’s journey is the longest great-circle distance between two sightings ever recorded for the species (Megaptera novaeangliae), scientists said. Great-circle distance refers to the shortest distance between two points on Earth as measured on the planet’s spherical […]
Scott L. Schwartz, the wrestler-turned-actor best known for playing Bruiser in the Ocean‘s Eleven film franchise, has died. He was 65. Schwartz died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 26 at his home in Covington, Louisiana, his wife Misty told The Hollywood Reporter. Schwartz originated Bruiser in the first Ocean’s Eleven film in 2001; the […]
Scott L. Schwartz, a former professional wrestler turned screen actor who made an impression playing the heavy Bruiser in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” heist trilogy, died Nov. 26, 2024 at his home in Covington, La. He was 65. Schwartz’s death was confirmed by a representative. A cause of death was not disclosed. “Those who know Scott […]
Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was. Things only got weirder from there. The organism’s distinctive, glowing presence was observed by multiple deep-sea […]
An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future.
