Marine Life

Indonesian environmental activists face jail after exposing the damage illegal shrimp farms are causing to Karimunjawa Marine National Park

Pseudocolochirus violaceus - a cucumber shaped like an apple with an unpleasant mode of defence and which breathes through its backside

Scientists have been left surprised at the recent discovery of a totally new species of sea slug off the coast of southwest England.

A major new study Seychelles has highlighted the importance of D’Arros Island and St. François Atoll for Seychelles' reef mantas

The orca known as Starboard has been witnessed killing and surgically removing a great white's liver - by himself - in under two minutes

Many land animals enjoy jumping out of the water, Periophthalmus modestus is a fish that enjoys jumping out of it

A marine heatwave could have been responsible for a recent 20 per cent decline in the Pacific humpback whale population.

The Critically Endangered Atlantic humpback dolphin has been granted protection under the US Endangered Species Act.

Using space technology, a team of researchers has developed a technique for monitoring reef biodiversity on a global scale.

The pelagic red crab, Grimothea planipes, is a species of squat lobster, and possibly one of the most important crustaceans…

A pod of orcas filmed trapped in a tiny break in the ice floe off the coast of Japan have released themselves, according to reports.

The discovery of of a new species of mussel in a sunken forest off coast of Alabama has been announced by the Ocean Census Alliance

A mystery noise that has kept residents of Tampa, Florida, awake at night may be the sound of fish enjoying their evenings making baby fish

The first ever footage of what might be a newborn baby great white shark has been filmed off the coast of Southern California

Once mistaken for an unknown species of jellyfish, Pelagothuria natatrix is a deep ocean sea cucumber that learned to swim

Sperm whales appear to make communal, democratic decisions - but take a long time discussing and disagreeing before they do

The strangest fish in all of Mexico - the axolotl - isn't a fish at all, but that's just the least of Ambystoma mexicanum's issues

The first known example of fin regeneration in silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) has been documented by a scientist in Florida