After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s ...

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The NOAA also estimates the gulf is the tomb of some 4,000 shipwrecks. Vessels discovered in the area include a War of 1812 privateer, boats sunk by German submarines during World War II and an ...

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On it, a scuba tank, wetsuit and the camera he uses to document the more than 300 shipwrecks that litter the islands' waters. Rouja, in his mid-40s, lacks the appearance of a government official ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

James “Jim” Goff, the down-home restaurateur whose namesake diner has been a staple in Pleasanton for three decades, was one of two bystanders killed by a vehicle during the famed Baja 1000 off-road ...