Rogue waves have been more common when waves were travelling in one direction, rather than spreading out. "It's understandable," University of South Florida researcher Laura Azevedo told the ...

Rogue waves - huge swells that can appear from calm seas - are occurring less often but becoming more extreme, data from the US coast suggests. In the largest study of its kind, scientists ...

Every so often though, out on the high seas, a rogue wave comes along. These abnormally large waves can strike with surprise, and are dangerous to even the largest of ships. Research is ongoing as ...

Our new understanding of the size and complexity of ocean waves suggests that they can be up to four times higher than we ...