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Hannah Osborne

'This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend': Mountain that sank beneath the waves discovered off Canary Islands

An underwater picture showing a rocky seafloor.

Researchers in Spain have uncovered lost islands that sank into the ocean millions of years ago, some of which still have their beaches intact.

"This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend," Luis Somoza, the head of a project to study volcanic activity off the Canary Islands, told Live Science in an email.

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