The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

When you think of great swimmers, animals like dolphins, fish, or penguins probably come to mind. But the animal kingdom is ...

Jessica tells us more about the the making of Tempest and the world that inspired it. Felicity Carter: Was there a story or image from folklore that you kept coming back to while ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

Jellyfish Day honors one of Earth’s oldest and most fascinating creatures, glowing reminders of resilience beneath the waves.

A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

The aquariums said its aerial survey team spotted three True’s beaked whales, a species “rarely seen at the surface,” while above the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the ...

Two tiny new species, a porcelain crab and a lantern shark, were discovered during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park, recent research confir ...

Nature is full of colours, and each one plays its own special role. Some animals use colour to hide from danger, while others ...

Sea monsters like the Kraken, serpents or the Loch Ness monster may be just in our imagination, but across history, these stories have roots in reality. Today, we still like to exaggerate and tell ...

First author Brendan Cottrell in the field. Credit: DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Canada). Brendan Cottrell studies the application of remote sensing and drone technology in marine mammal conservation at ...

The Union of the Comoros sees vanishingly few tourists, although this little African nation is in many parts a bona fide Indian Ocean paradise, said Kate Eshelby in The Times, with “jewel-green” ...