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 ...

Our oceans are incredible scientific marvels, and there’s a lot to learn about these amazing bodies of water. You may have learned in school that oceans cover about 70% of the Earth. Still ...

At deep-sea levels, this forms a new food web and provides energy to support single- and multi-cell organisms and sponges, thus adding to the ocean's food chain.

Water in the open ocean is about three percent salt by weight, but the optimal levels of dissolved minerals inside an animal cell is less than one percent.