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More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.
Although it now serves as a reef for marine life, researchers have always had trouble visiting the wreck to assess the environment and the ironclad itself. The majority of the Monitor rests about 240 ...
Rising seas are reshaping the world’s lowest-lying islands, but responsible travel can be part of the solution. so how can we visit without increasing their vulnerability?
A RENEWED deep-sea hunt for missing flight MH370 has failed to find any trace of the doomed jet 12 years after it vanished. Search teams spent nearly a month combing thousands of square miles of ...
National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts tells how diving to surface the stories of sunken slave shipwrecks has changed her life.
Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years, and the story of his ...
Divers exploring the North Sea have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric settlement in Doggerland, a landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe. These findings offer a rare glimpse into ...
In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...
In this exclusive video for Scubaverse.com, Jeff Goodman sits down with Calum Stronach. A highly experienced polar dive ...
In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval Europe forever. THE FINAL ATTACKThis 15th-century miniature, ...
When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens. Reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis), based on ...