UK charity the Shark Trust’s annual citizen-science project the Great Shark Snapshot is set to take place from 20-28 July this year. Divers and snorkellers
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TV wildlife expert Steve Backshall is headlining UK charity the Shark Trust’s flagship event “For The Love Of Sharks” later this year. The celebration evening
In case you missed the memo, April is “Citizen Science Month”, prompting Plymouth-based charity the Shark Trust to step up its push to get more
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A male killer whale was observed for the first time last year in the act of dispatching and extracting the liver from a great white
What have until now been the secrets of these sharks’ unique head development are revealed by GARETH J FRASER and his team at the University of
Sea spiders are neither spiders nor spider-crabs, but a marine arthropod species of the order Pantopoda, and they are found all over the world. Now
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An “historic step” to protect marine life from underwater noise pollution is how the campaign body International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has welcomed new
Two humpback whales have been captured on camera in the act of copulation for the first time and, unprecedented as this was, the encounter was
An international group of scientists believe they might have discovered more than 100 new marine-life species living on seamounts in the South-eastern Pacific off the
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Following them to the seabed in the Indian Ocean has revealed surprising feeding habits, says marine biologist NICOLE ESTEBAN of Swansea University Hawksbill turtles are critically
Cross-breeding between blue and fin whales has been far more prevalent than had been previously realised, and is likely to have long-term consequences for Earth’s
Few scuba divers who have dived tropical reefs, especially in the Caribbean or Coral Triangle, can fail to have come across the work of Paul
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Footage showing what is thought to be the first-ever sighting of a live newborn great white shark has just been released – and marine biologists
A deep-lying coral reef off the south-eastern USA over an area of 10,000sq miles – almost the size of Albania – has been declared the
A 2.8km-deep octopus nursery, only the third known in the world, was discovered by marine scientists in July as they explored previously unseen seamounts off
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A beluga whale has been sighted near Shetland – a rare sighting of the species rarely spotted south of the Arctic Circle, let alone in
For decades scuba divers in Sydney enjoyed the company of a friendly eastern blue groper reckoned to be as much as 40 years old, and
‘Then’ and ‘now’ underwater images taken by scuba divers have confirmed a dramatic instance of tissue regeneration in a silky shark, the dorsal fin of