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When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of Yakutiya’s Ust-Yanskiy District, which covers a swath of tundra three times the size of Switzerland ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... an underground web that covers more than 3.7 square miles in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. Yet mushrooms are poorly ...

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