You may have read that the deep sea is a very different environment from the land and shallow water. There is no light, it is ...

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Iceland Foods — an Icelandic grocer — has launched a "Lucky Dip" initiative sure to have bargain hunters rejoicing.

Weird makos filmed off the California coast in a new Shark Week show raise questions about what these sharks actually are.

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As I drive Iceland’s Ring Road to the country’s western end, I snap photos of these pony-sized horses frolicking in ...

Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker; he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer.

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