This 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual cetacean-like shape of Belize's Lighthouse Reef. It's home to the famous Great ...

Did you know the Great Blue Hole in Belize is huge? It’s 318 meters (1,043 feet) wide and goes down 124 meters (407 feet). This amazing hole is part of the Belize Barrier Reef, a UNESCO site. It has ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists took a 98-foot core sample from the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of ...

An expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America has returned with a cargo of worrying information. After studying a 30-meter (98-foot) sediment core ...

Researchers have found a blue hole they say is the deepest in the world—and they’ve yet to find where it bottoms out. The formation is the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, and it has so ...

A blue hole off the coast of Mexico has been found to be the deepest underwater sinkhole in the world. The Taam Ja' Blue Hole, which was first discovered in 2021, was originally thought to be 900 feet ...

Scientists have yet to reach the bottom of the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, which new measurements hint could be connected to a labyrinth of submarine caves and tunnels. When you ...

Blue holes, like the Great Blue Hole in Belize, are vast caverns that descend into the seafloor. Sediment accumulates at the bottom of a blue hole, giving researchers a way to gauge historical ...