The "living museum" will be preserved for divers and snorkelers, researchers say, its cannons and anchors kept under about ten feet of crystalline water.
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Mysterious modern mummies draw tourists to a small Colombian village. Although scientists don't know how the corpses were preserved, some locals credit a spiny, berry-like fruit.
A law that gives forest-dwelling tribes the right to cultivate their traditional lands will devastate India's endangered wildlife, some conservationists argue.
Pieces of the only known surviving Roman throne were recently found in lava and ash from the first-century eruption of present-day Italy's Mount Vesuvius.
The first law to recognize the rights of tribal people to live in protected forests is yet to be enforced due to an outcry from conservationists that the move could doom India's tigers.
A 500-year-old map that makes the first known reference to "America" has some researchers scratching their heads about how the mapmaker sketched out the world.
European bears didn't need to retreat south during the last Ice Age, DNA evidence has found—hunting, and not climate, may be to blame for their now-fragmented habitats.
The intricately carved vase is giving experts a glimpse into ancient rituals that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting.
