Recently, experts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean were interested in a huge basking shark discovered in eastern Canada.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

More recently, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus discovered new lands while seeking to expand trade with spice-growing areas in Asia.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

That year a French biologist who had been studying reefs in the western Atlantic discovered that they are animals.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Several years later, researchers discovered the exact cause of pellagra: a lack of the B vitamin known as niacin.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

One of Blackbeard's ships, Queen Anne's Revenge, was discovered under seven meters of water near Beaufort fifteen years ago.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

American officials say the information was made public after Iran discovered that Western intelligence agencies knew about the facility.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Then she discovered a set of old drums in her family's home and became interested in playing that instrument.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The three men had found one of the largest amounts of gold ever discovered lying on the surface of the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The Roman historian Pliny said that Phoenician sailors accidentally discovered how to make glass over three thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

For if McClellan discovered how few men were left behind, he could smash through easily and capture the city.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

"There are all sorts of rovers and stuff up there that are waiting to be discovered when people go up there."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Mizz Blackburn and Mister Szostak discovered the special system of genetic information in the telomeres that protects the chromosomes from ruin.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Lee soon discovered that it would not be easy to break out of the trap that Richmond and Petersburg had become.

VOA: special.2009.12.17