The Wire-Frame Phantom of the Deep: The Mystery of the Bigfin Squid Deep-sea footage often begins with almost nothing. A…

The Gentle Giant of the Kelp Forests: The Near-Instant Loss of Steller’s Sea Cow In 1741, members of a stranded…

The Sovereign of a Rebuilding Ocean: The Rise of Thalattoarchon Saurophagis Around 252 million years ago, Earth suffered the end-Permian…

The Ocean’s 2,000-Year-Old Computer: The Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism At first glance, the Antikythera Mechanism does not look like…

The Ghost of the Annamite Mountains: The Silent Struggle of the Saola The name sounds like folklore: the Asian unicorn….

The Sound That Sparked a Legend: The Real Story of “The Bloop” In 1997, underwater listening equipment deployed across the…

The Yangtze River’s Lost Giant: The Tragic Disappearance of the Chinese Paddlefish The Yangtze River once carried an animal that…

The Prehistoric Shark with a “Circular Saw” Jaw: The Mystery of Helicoprion For more than a century, one of the…