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.

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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 ...

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 ...

In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...

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The Osa Peninsula, located in southwestern Costa Rica, is one of the most biologically intense places on Earth, according to National Geographic. Home to Corcovado National Park, this secluded region ...

The Brooklyn Museum's March programming includes a First Saturday honoring Women’s History Month, a poetry workshop inspired ...

The other day, an article in Popular Mechanics (of all things) caught my attention. It described how scientists are making ...

Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.