These remarkable underwater snaps show a treasure trove of shipwrecked Roman-era remains that ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean. The astonishingly well-preserved finds are understood to come from…
Greenpeace UK has placed 18 limestone boulders on the seabed in the western English Channel to block destructive industrial fishing. On Thursday 1 September, campaigners and crew on board Greenpeace…
These images show how a six-tonne fir tree dating back 1,400 years has been recovered from an underwater forest in an Austrian lake. Experts say the tree first took seed…
Marine scientists have revealed how they can track whale movement through the ocean using spare fibre optic cables to eavesdrop on them. Individual hydrophones, or underwater microphones, had previously been…
A team of archaeologists had to scramble to investigate a 3400-year-old city before it was submerged again after it emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to drought. Their…
Gori the hungry young hippo had a right calf trying to get to grips with his underwater birthday cake. The young hippo was celebrating his second birthday at Spain's BIOPARC…
This remarkable underwater footage shows the moment when a shark hurtles towards a diver and starts munching away at his catch of fish. The clip was filmed in the waters…
Fishermen have left many of the first underwater museum's 117 sculptures - including a giant statue of Poseidon - badly damaged after flouting a ban on dropping anchors in the…
This is the moment Colombian Navy personnel and conservationists rescue an endangered pink river dolphin after it became stranded for over a month, and then release it in safer waters.…
A survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012 has received nearly GBP 80,000 in compensation for ‘post-shipwreck stress’. The Costa Concordia cruise ship struck an underwater rock,…