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Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

January 20, 2025: We have checked for new Meme Sea codes to add to this list. What are the new Meme Sea codes? When taking on an ocean of the internet’s most popular memes with a One Piece ...

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When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

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Images of the burning oil tanker Sounion are a stark reminder of Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. (Photo: Eunavfor Aspides) A reported ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Estonian naval ships sail in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, as part of stepped-up NATO patrols in ...

The C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable is being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea by cable ship Ile de Brehat on the shore of Helsinki, Finland [File: Lehtikuva/Heikki Saukkomaa/via ...