Marine Life

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

The populations of grey seals, sharks and rays are on the increase off the Cumbrian coast, but so too are invasive Pacific oysters.

One of nature’s greatest spectacles, the final mating rituals of the giant cuttlefish, takes place on the reefs of South Australia

The rarely-seen goblin shark is one of the oldest fish in the sea, a living fossil of the darkest depths, but not nearly as nasty as its namesake

A megalodon tooth has, for the first time, been discovered in-situ on the deep ocean floor, 3.5 million years after it fell there

Probably fewer than 1,000 of the bulky but graceful manatees survive in Mexican waters but divers are sometimes lucky with a sea cow encounter

An encounter by divers with grey reef sharks in Seychelles might have just transformed the science of sharks as we know it.

There's very little angelic about Glaucus atlanticus, the blue angel sea slug - it can pack a very dangerous sting, depending on what it had for lunch

New Caledonia takes bold strides to further protect some of the world's most pristine and species-diverse coral reefs.

The discovery of a pregnant megamouth shark and her unborn pups has deepened scientific understanding of the elusive creature's life cycle

A warming planet is influencing the sex ratio of sea turtles, but could industrial pollution also be playing a part?

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