A dugout canoe emerged Tuesday from Madison’s Lake Mendota for the first time in 1,200 years. A team of divers and archaeologists carefully extracted it from lake sediment 27 feet underwater and ...

The largest lake in the “Chain” is 9,842 acre Lake Mendota, which besides having trophy walleye and northern pike, has big smallmouth bass.

On Nov. 2, a team of divers and archaeologists carefully removed a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe from the bottom of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin. The extracted canoe is made of white oak, and ...

On a brisk Tuesday at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, maritime archaeologists, scuba divers, and residents of the Spring Harbor neighborhood stood in the cold as a canoe was brought to shore ...

Lake Mendota was already on the map for studies on limnology, Rohwer says. Now, researchers in other fields are already using the data set for their own inquiries into evolution, viruses and more.

Less than one year after a 1,200-year-old canoe was recovered from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, another dugout canoe was retrieved from the same area, only this time the artifact was much older.

MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) – Less than one year after a 1,200-year-old canoe was recovered from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, another dugout canoe was retrieved from the same area, only this time the ...

Late Wednesday night, multiple individuals reported sighting a strange creature akin to Scottish folklore’s “Loch Ness Monster” in Lake Mendota between 11 p.m. and midnight, the Madison Police ...

The 3,000-year-old dugout canoe recovered from Lake Mendota glows red as a 3D scan is performed on it. The scan was conducted by Lennon Rodgers, Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation ...

I’ve never discovered anything in such a public way. It was a vision of things to come.” The recovery team for the Wisconsin Historical Society lifts a 1,200-year-old canoe from Lake Mendota.

The discovery in Madison's Lake Mendota comes less than a year after a 1,200-year-old canoe was found, the historical society said in a press release. Both of the canoes are now being preserved ...