oceans

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But only a full excavation will prove its identity for sure.

Awwwwww.

Sixty million cigarette butts have been collected from oceans since the 1980s.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of Texas.

The watch belonged to a Russian immigrant who planned to settle in the Bronx and become a dentist. He didn't make it.

The beach is wonderful when it's not giving you third-degree burns.

Sharks aren't the mindless manhunters movies make them out to be.

They don't reach maturity until they're 25.

The pay is great, so long as you don't mind the sharks, dead bodies, and occasional risk of being sucked into a vacuum.

This predator can swim thousands of miles upriver, hunt baby hippos, and take over the occasional golf course.

The wreckage of the <em>Pulaski</em> was lost for almost 180 years.

Very slowly.

A British artist created an artificial reef filled with sculptures at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The 'Titanic' is one of the most famous shipwrecks on the seafloor. Its discovery was part of an unrelated Navy investigation.

Project Recover tracked down aircraft in a bay near Papua New Guinea.

When it sank on June 8, 1708, it was carrying gold, silver, jewels, and other precious cargo.

One known species of isopod, or "giant sea cockroach"

Researchers thought the foot-long sea cockroach was "cute."

Swim with turtles and snap selfies with sculptures at this diving spot off the coast of Florida.

A Viking vessel in Saint Kitts, one of the stops on the cruise line's Ultimate World Cruise.

Could you spend the better part of a year on a ship?

After eavesdropping on the deep sea for years, researchers are sharing the feed with the public.

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With the ability to control and even kill their hosts, each one of these parasites could star as the next terror of the silver screen.

There's a lot we don't know about how whales hear.

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There are plenty of species named after Attenborough, but this is the first one to share its name with one of his documentaries.

Dolphin calves are born tail first, rather than head first, so that they don't drown during the birthing process. Read on for 14 other facts about these fascinating creatures.

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