1961’s Alekseyev SM-1 Was a Precursor to the Famous Caspian Sea Monster. Posted: May 12, 2025 | Last updated: May 12, 2025. Pictured here, the Alekseyev SM-1 was an incredible first-of-its-kind ...

The Caspian Sea is about as strange as a body of water gets. Its surface still sits 27.5 meters (90 feet) ... Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews' newest book, Caspian: The Elements, takes the reader on a meandering journey through oil-rich central Asia following traces of natural elements such as fire, gas ...

Bordered by the Caspian Sea to ... Shiraz, famous for its gardens, poets, and ... Traveling to Iran during the best time ensures a comfortable and enriching experience in each of these places.

In the late 1960s, the Caspian Sea Monster was a Soviet hybrid of plane and boat (called an ekranoplan). Now a Singaporean company is continuing its legacy with the AirFish ground-effect vehicle.

Here are five facts about the inland sea whose legal status has been the subject of fraught negotiations for over two decades since the Soviet Union's collapse.

An explosion rocked the Caspian Sea on Sunday, with an Azerbaijan oil company stating the cause was due to a "natural burning mud volcano." The blast is reported to have taken place around six ...