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Researchers hope to better understand how calves communicate with their mothers.

Pandemic Quiet Means We Can Eavesdrop on Rare Australian Dolphins

Researchers are hoping to use the opportunity to get a better handle on their language.

Ronan O'Connell October 12, 2020

From high in the sky, the colors of the landscape are plainly visible.

Behold, the Great Salt Lake's Wonderfully Colorful Salt Pans, From Space

Everything looks cool from the International Space Station.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 9, 2020

An elephant sits in the waters of the Okavango Delta in September 2019.

Botswana Says It's Solved the Mystery of a Mass Elephant Die-Off

Conservationists were baffled when hundreds of elephants died in the Okavango Delta this summer.

Atlas Obscura September 21, 2020

At the port of Sharafkhaneh in 2015, an abandoned ship is stuck in solidified salt.

The Ghost Towns of Lake Urmia, Once West Asia's Largest Lake

Ships, farms, and hotels were left high and dry when 90 percent of the water disappeared.

Solmaz Daryani September 11, 2020

Silent Pool

Albury, England

Silent Pool

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

The carved-shell llama and the gold roll are recurring motifs in Inca offerings, submerged and otherwise.

Found: A Miniature Incan Llama at the Bottom of Lake Titicaca

The centuries-old offering was nestled inside an underwater stone box.

Isaac Schultz August 12, 2020

Nochten Boulder Park, on the site of an old open-cast coal mine, is one of the newly created landscapes in the Lausitzer Seenland.

From Mining Hellscape to Holiday Paradise

How Germany's Lusatian Lakes District is remaking an entire region through broad-scale landscape re-engineering.

Megan Gannon July 23, 2020

Stromatolite.

Cervantes, Australia

Lake Thetis

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

The cave entrance is unassuming.

Oracle, Arizona

Peppersauce Cave

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

Heart Shaped Rih Dil Lake

Rih Dil

This heart-shaped lake near the border of India and Myanmar is deeply rooted in Mizo folklore.

Catemaco, Mexico

Estatua del Pescador (The Fisherman's Statue)

This larger-than-life golden statue pays tribute to this town's old and new trades.

The manmade lake in Puerto Rico's northwest.

Quebradillas, Puerto Rico

Guajataca Lake

An unnatural lake in a naturally beautiful setting.

A fisherman searches for a catch in his athapum.

Loktak Lake

The largest freshwater lake in northeast India is also the only floating national park in the world.

The Intrepid Mother and Son Who Unraveled a Geographic Hoax

Atlas Obscura had a page for something called Moose Boulder, until fan Roger Dickey called us on it.

Matthew Taub April 27, 2023

Homes and equipment were shrouded in spiky ice.

The 'Icing' on These Lakeside Homes Is Actual Ice

Wind and waves sprayed freezing water from Lake Erie onto the houses of Hoover Beach.

Jessica Leigh Hester March 3, 2020

"Ice volcanoes" often have a big slit on one side.

Lake Michigan's 'Ice Volcanoes' Are Extremely Cool, Definitely Not Volcanoes

“It sounds like if you got a big Slurpee, and then dumped it on the ground.”

Jessica Leigh Hester February 25, 2020

As the mirabilite accumulates, it forms crystallized terraces on the lakefront.

Utah's Great Salt Lake Could Hold Clues to Life on Mars

The mineral mirabilite is the key.

Isaac Schultz January 28, 2020

Lac Assal

Tadjourah, Djibouti

Lac Assal

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.