Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they fell ...

U.S. Sen Tommy Tuberville has introduced legislation that would preserve a trove of fossilized cypress trees as a National Marine Sanctuary. A bill that would designate the Underwater Forest, which is ...

Should Alabama’s Underwater Forest be protected as a marine sanctuary? Since AL.com first revealed the existence of an ancient cypress forest standing on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, its location ...

A fantastical underwater forest has sprouted off the coast of Pernera beach in southeast Cyprus. Dubbed the Museum of Underwater Sculpture Ayia Napa (MUSAN), the attraction opened to the public on ...

The artist behind the world’s first underwater sculpture park has just unveiled his latest subaquatic project – a spectacular sunken forest located off the coast of Pernera beach in Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

The discovery of the underwater forest actually started out as a rumor about a “honey hole” somewhere off the coast of Alabama where the red snapper was so prolific, they nearly jumped into a ...

Environmental activist and artist Jason deCaires Taylor specializes in site-specific sculptural artwork that’s installed permanently underwater and reflects modern themes of conservation. The artist’s ...

Scuba divers have found a 50,000 year-old Bald Cypress forest that was likely uncovered when Hurricane Katrina swept through the region back in 2005. Top image: A sonar map reveals a primeval ...