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Drowned Village of Vilarinho da Furna in Portugal
In a rare occurrence, during a particularly dry spell in Portugal's Minho region, Vilarinho da Furna emerges from beneath the water to reveal the bare walls of a 2000-year-old town destroyed by an...
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The World's Last VCRs Will Be Produced In Japan This Month
A VHS tape without a home. (Photo: DRs Kulturarvsprojekt/CC BY-SA 2.0)All good tech must come to an end. Funai Electric Comapany—the last known producers of Video Cassette Recorders, or VCRs—have hit...
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The Woman Who Received Van Gogh's Severed Ear Has Been Identified
Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, from 1889, a year before Van Gogh killed himself. (Photo: Public domain)Vincent Van Gogh, the groundbreaking late 19th-century Dutch painter, was a troubled man. At age...
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Help Us Smell the Nation's Political Conventions
Take a whiff. (Photo: Erik Drost/CC BY 2.0)We're compiling a collection of scents from both the RNC and the DNC (with a h/t to Jordan Sargent at Gawker for the inspiration). If you were there, please...
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Meet Waterbod, the David Attenborough Of Instagram
A brightly-colored nudibranch. (All Photos: Aron Sanchez)The biggest nature-focused Instagram accounts score millions of followers by going broad. The U.S. Department of the Interior, with a million...
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The Underwater Room at Manta Resort in Tanzania
The Underwater Room appears to float, buoy-like, upon the surface of the crystalline waters off the coast of Tanzania. In reality each corner is tethered to the ocean floor, so have no fear about...
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Subsix in Maldives
At the uber fancy PER AQUUM Niyama resort in Maldives, tourists frolic between two private islands. They have lots of dining choices, but by far the most unique is Subsix, a gourmet restaurant six...
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Snake Island - Ilha da Queimada Grande in Brazil
Off the shore of Brazil, almost 93 miles away from São Paulo downtown, is Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as "Snake Island." The island is untouched by human developers, and for very good reason....
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The Fantastical Beauty of Sunken Ruins
Exploring the sunken treasures of Heracleion. (Photo: Christoph Gerigk courtesy Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation)Every empire comes to ruin. The technological marvels of today are the wreckage of the...
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We Uncovered the Hidden Patterns in Clinton and Trump's Most Common Phrases
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump making speeches. (Photo: left, lorie shaull/cropped/CC BY-SA 2.0; right, Gage Skidmore/cropped/CC BY-SA 3.0)The Republican National Convention is entering its final...
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Tampons Could Soon Be Free For All Women in Sydney
(Photo: Simon Law/CC BY-SA 2.0)Sydney's city council is set to vote on a measure that would offer free tampons to women in a variety of places throughout the city, including at libraries, sports...
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HMS Alliance Submarine Museum in Gosport, England
Originally launched in 1945 the massive HMS Alliance served until 1981 when it was scuttled and made into a museum ship, but slowly rusted away, becoming home to over 100 pigeons. But recently the...
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Angelita Cenote in Tulum, Mexico
The last thing most scuba divers expect to find while diving is another river underwater, but that is exactly what awaits in the depths of the flooded cave known as the Angelita Cenote.In the thick...
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Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan
Ever since the mid-19th century, the Thunder Bay region has been a heavily trafficked waterway, sitting as it does on shipping lanes that carry cargo between the upper and lower Great Lakes. And since...
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I Would Walk 500 Miles, and I Would Walk 500 More, Just to Be the Man Who...
The Hudson trench, perhaps a short cut to the deep sea. (Photo: GeoMapApp/Vicki Ferrini)Imagine this scenario. Far into the future, all of Earth’s water has dried up. (Climate change turned out to be...
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Photographing a Superpod of Sperm Whales
Members of an enormous social gathering of hundreds of sperm whales, which spread across many square kilometers. (All photos: Tony Wu)A version of this story originally appeared on...
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The World's Oldest Known Manatee Turns 68 This Weekend
#Snooty, the oldest manatee in the world, is turning 68. https://t.co/yEfPDkDfMM@SouthFLMuseumpic.twitter.com/nsmzav3vJW— New Times Broward (@NewTimesBroward) July 1, 2016When Snooty the manatee was...
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Malm Whale in Gothenburg, Sweden
In 1865, a young blue whale beached on the rocks of Askim Bay, not far from the city of Göteborg. In those heady days, beached whales were not generally rescued, but slaughtered, and such was the fate...
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The Firefly Squid of Toyama Bay in Japan
Watasenia scintillans, or the Firefly Squid, is only 3 inches long, but packs a stunning feature in that small package. At the end of their tentacles are special organs called photophores that light up...
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Shark Ray Alley in Belize
There is a lovely little spot in the Hol Chan Marine Reserve where the weather is warm, the waters are crystal clear, and the diving and snorkeling is unparalleled. That is, if you don't mind getting...
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