The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. Some 230,000 people died as ...

While many believe that the story Plato told was nothing more than a warning about being too boastful and prideful, others ...

This once thriving port town fell into the sea and was forgotten about, until one diver decided to take the plunge.

Comprehensive, precision-laser surveys, conducted via aircraft over the tiny Pacific island of Temwen, have revealed just how advanced its lost city ... Maya cities hidden under thick jungle ...

The region is called the Lost City, and it has been a hot spot of scientific ... from a 470-foot-long research vessel in the Atlantic Ocean. Not far from the underwater mountain range the Mid ...

Geoarchaeologist Dr Martin Bates is helping to discover whether there is a "lost land" under the Irish Sea. Oral traditions of "lost kingdoms" in Welsh mythology date back to the 6th Century.

With more than a nod to the adventures of Jules Verne, and taking its inspiration from a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, this deep-sea tale has all the ingredients to be more noteworthy, but even Vincent ...

Baiae was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire – the place where the rich and powerful came to carry out their illicit affairs. However, over several centuries, the city slowly sunk beneath the sea.

The cities along the Baltic Sea in ... is situated on the southern part of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Gdańsk in northern Poland. Once under Soviet rule and carrying a tumultuous past ...

Under lab conditions coral skeleton growth has been shown to decline pretty much linearly as the carbonate concentration drops off. Slow growth may not matter much in the lab. Out in the ocean ...