Welcome to the Kotkeye Ride Home for Tuesday, June 5th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

New ocean just dropped, and a new dinosaur species, big release day. So all about the fifth ocean and one of the newest, largest dinosaurs.

Plus, what a new serial says about current marketing trends, the state of cereal as a whole,

fan-franchise relationships, and the contemporary fusion of ancient folklore.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

It's World Ocean Day, and National Geographic is celebrating by announcing a new ocean, kind of.

So growing up, you were probably taught that there are four oceans, the Pacific, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Arctic.

But if you work in certain scientific fields, or perhaps depending on where you were educated,

you know that there's a fifth, the Southern Ocean. The International Hydrographic Organization,

or IHO, has been responsible for naming and delineating seas and oceans since

1919. The Southern Ocean was included as an ocean in their first publication in

1928 and in subsequent editions, though with the ocean's borders being pushed further and

further south until they removed it altogether in 1953. The IHO said in the 1953 edition, quote,

The Antarctic or Southern Ocean has been omitted from this publication as the majority of opinions

received since the issue of the second edition in 1937 are to the effect that there exists

no real justification for applying the term ocean to this body of water,

the northern limits of which are difficult to lay down owing to their seasonal change.

The limits of the Atlantic Pacific and Indian oceans have therefore been extended south to the Antarctic continent.

Hydrographic offices who issue separate publications dealing with this area are

therefore left to decide their own northern limits, end quote. Though the matter has been

revisited a number of times most significantly in the year 2000, the IHO has yet to come to an

agreement from its members, and the Southern Ocean has not been formally reinstated by the IHO.

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