Marine Life

One reason to be grateful you're not a fish - the spine-chilling isopod Cymothoa exigua, or tongue-eating louse

Scientists say blue whales have returned to Seychelles, despite being almost wiped out by whalers during the 20th century

Lurking deep within the bowels of the earth - quite literally - is Nereis sandersi - a deep ocean polychaete worm

The Straight of Gibraltar orcas have sunk another boat - but are they seeking revenge, or just having fun?

From DIVE's Miscellany of Marine Curios - Periphylla periphylla - the helmet jellyfish - a vertical migrator with a very rare reproductive

The family of deep-sea anglerfish known as sea devils has a dark and desparate courtship, but end up paired - quite literally - for life

The spread of invasive lionfish in the Caribbean has been well-documented, but another in the Mediterranean has been creeping under the radar

An introduction to the ocean's largest and most notorious predatory fish - the great white shark - and why we need to learn not to fear them

Scientists create detailed high-resolution maps of newly discovered deep coral reefs in the Galápagos marine reserve

There are some weird and scary looking fish down there in the dark; things you definitely don't want to bump into on a night dive...

There are few critters that give a diver the heebie-jeebies based on looks alone, but the Bobbit worm is definitely one of them

Jellyfish don’t have a central brain as such but, as scientists have recently discovered, they can learn through association

Coral reefs are the reason many of us love to go diving, but there's an awful lot we still don't know about them. Here are the basics.

Thousands of breeding Octopuses - an 'Octopus Garden' - have found in the deep sea near Monterey Bay, California

Stunning footage from videographer DolphinDroneDom of orcas (killer whales) hunting dolphins off the coast of San Diego

A new species of comatulid crinoid, or feather star, has been described after an analysis of samples collected during Antarctic expeditions

Sharks are top of many divers' lists of things to see - here are some of the best places in the world to dive with them, according to PADI

Previous assumptions about basking sharks may be proven incorrect as a new study finds they are almost certainly warm bloooded fish