10 Most Mysterious Discoveries Found Underwater
From ancient rainforests hidden under the ice to missing pilots found, here are 10 of the most mysterious things found underwater or under the ice.
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10. Underwater Tank Graveyard
At the beginning of 2015, a Twitter account specializing in abandoned places posted an image of what appeared to be an underwater tank graveyard. The photo contained a pile of World War II-era tanks found submerged, including some that were upside down, as if they were carelessly dropped into the water from high above.
9. Antarctic Rainforest
In 2017 scientists discovered evidence of a 90-million-year-old rainforest by analyzing a sediment core retrieved from beneath the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica. They noticed a distinct layer in the core, and a closer look revealed ancient roots, pollen, spores, and remains of flowering plants. Antarctica was once ice-free, hosting a rainforest lush with vegetation that was completely different to its modern-day barren landscape.
8. ICE AGE MONUMENTS
Last year, a group of activists found what appeared to be deliberately arranged rock formations at the bottom of a lake while they were examining some gas pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac (Mackinaw) between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). If they are manmade, the linear and circular structures would date back some 10,000 years, to the end of the last Ice Age!
7. Living Prehistoric Creature
Imagine spending years looking for an insect-like creature smaller than a sesame seed. That’s exactly what biologists Ian Hogg and Byron Adams did. For years the two worked together in search of Tullbergia mediantarctica. It was originally discovered in 1964, but no one had seen it since then. They began their search in 2006, but their efforts repeatedly turned up fruitless.
6. A NEW ISLAND
As the Antarctic Peninsula’s two major glaciers retreat at remarkable speed, the melting ice is revealing parts of the planet that people of our time have never seen before. In February of last year, scientists with the International Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research project announced the appearance of an uncharted island, visible above sea level for the first time amid the disappearing ice.
5. PREHISTORIC MINING SITES
While swimming through the Sagitario underwater cave system beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula in 2017, a pair of divers found a rare prehistoric pigment mining site. The submerged tools, fire pits, and other fixtures date back to sometime between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, when the region’s indigenous inhabitants extracted iron-rich red ocher there.
4. SALTY POLAR LAKES...ON MARS
Is it possible that other planets have lakes of some sort? Earth is not the only planet with polar ice caps. Mars has them, too, and experts have wondered if there could be water hidden beneath them, and if there is water, then perhaps there is life. Recent research shows that this is, in fact, a possibility.
3. WWII Pilot
After months of underwater excavations, the US military has found the remains of at least one pilot that was shot down in 1944. Reports of two US aircraft found underwater in the Republic of Palau led to investigations that lasted several years.
2. SUBMERGED SETTLEMENT
The site, known as Atlit Yam, is one of the world’s best-preserved prehistoric underwater settlements. Discovered during the 1980s and excavated in the following years, the ruins tell a story of a pre-pottery people who were repeatedly forced inland as the sea encroached on their homes.
1. An Ancient Lake
Hundreds of thousands, or possibly millions of years ago, when northwestern Greenland was ice-free, a lake formed there. Occupying an area of over 2,700 square miles (7,100 km2), it was about the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. It was over 800 feet (244 meters) deep at its deepest point.
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