New ghost shark species found off Costa Rica reveals major gaps in Pacific biodiversity research.

Born at sea, Virginia was just five when her father, the famous Norwegian adventurer Peter Tangvald, died tragically in a shipwreck. When her elder brother, Thomas, also disappeared mysteriously at ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. When you ask someone whether they have ever seen a ghost, you are ...