Marine Life

A new three-part docu-series is coming to Nat Geo LIVE this Earth Day - a fantastic glimpse into the lives and behaviours of octopuses

SECORE International‘s coral seeding programme is hailed a great success, with its reef restoration initiative present in nine Caribbean nations

A huge aggregation of spider crabs is one of the most astonishing spectacles in UK waters - Lewis Jeffries investigates Cornwall's Red Army

Horseshoe crabs are living fossils threatened by a unique usefulness to human science (and they're not related to crabs)

Scientists are worried about a mystery illness killing critically endangered smalltooth sawfish in the Florida Keys.

Marine Megafauna Foundation scientists' report the surprise discovery of the shape-shifting mimic octopus in Mozambique 

The UK government is being taken to court for repeatedly setting catch limits for fishing that exceed scientific advice

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.