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The ruins of the Husuni Kubwa, the palace-fort of Kilwa, Tanzania, overlook the Indian Ocean. The 14th-century sultan’s residence boasted more than a hundred...

May 24, 2018 · It is a five-storied pagoda of Arakurayama Sengen Park in Fujiyoshida City, Yamanashi Prefecture. This place has become popular year by year for both foreign...

The Mediterranean Sea's only connection to the world's oceans is through a narrow strip of water between Europe and Africa known as the Strait of Gibraltar, as...

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The U.S.S. Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941. More than 2,400 people died and some 20 ships, including the U.S.S....

Churning the ocean into a bubbling cauldron creatures from sea and sky dart and dive to feast on the invisible schools of mackerel and sand eels below the waves. At least seven minke whales rise and fall as seals swirl, shearwaters swoop and …

People pass by an ichthyosaur in London's Natural History Museum. This specimen was discovered by Mary Anning in Lyme Regis in 1832.

A person sits near a colony of gentoo penguins, Pygoscelis papua, next to an old research shed.