Ocean upwellings are an important, resource-rich event in the lives of many marine animals. They occur as cool and warm waters mix and nutrients are driven to t...
Gaze stabilisation is an almost ubiquitous animal behaviour, one that is required to see the world clearly and without blur. Stomatopods, however, only fix thei...
The enigmatic Greenland shark has puzzled scientists for years. Growing to over 5 meters long, it spends its days swimming in the cool waters of the North Atlan...
We have countless fossils at our disposal when studying extinct animals and the environments they lived in. But even so, it can be difficult to accurately recon...
New species are still being discovered daily, but how often do researchers stumble upon something as large as a whale? That's exactly what has happened, as, wit...
Could there yet be a brighter future for coral reefs? Scientists have recently discovered something that could bring more hope: there are genes found in symbiot...
Sea turtles bring more than 500,000 visitors to the U.S. Southeast coastal region annually, with almost all of the income going to residents of the region. Some...
Lost fishing traps in the Florida Keys are killing lobsters and damaging the seabed, and with tropical storms predicted to grow ever stronger, the problem of “g...
Relationship advice seems to rain down upon us from all angles; the in-laws, magazines, chat shows, but did you ever expect to be taking tips from a hermaphrodi...
Sea snakes are certainly amongst the most extraordinary reptiles - only a few reptile groups have succeeded in adopting an entirely marine existence, and sea sn...
