NOAA archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of Alaska in one of the planet’s most unexplored ocean regions. The shipwrecks, and parts of other ships, that were found are most likely the remains of 33 ships trapped […]
Sydney — A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age. The 14,000 year old bone — found among the remains of China’s enigmatic ‘Red Deer Cave people’ — has been shown […]
After decades of uncertainty, the Apollo 16 S-IVB impact site on the lunar surface has been identified. S-IVBs were portions of the Saturn V rockets that brought astronauts to the moon. The site was identified in imagery from the high-resolution LROC Narrow Angle Camera aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Beginning with Apollo 13, the S-IVB rocket stages were […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of a Wrangell man, last heard from on November 5th, have been located. The body 53-year-old Kenneth Trammel, who was reported overdue on November 15th, was found floating in Earl West Cove, 12 air miles to the southeast of Wrangell on Wednesday. No sign of his vessel, the […]