Marine Biology

When four Canadian scuba divers headed out on their second dive of the day in a Pacific Ocean inlet in British Columbia, they were shocked

By marine mammal biologist KATE SPROGIS of the University of Western Australia Sad scenes are unfolding in Western Australia after a pod of pilot whales

An octopus nursery has been discovered by a scientific team using ROVs to explore previously unseen deep seamounts off Costa Rica. The researchers also recorded a

Scuba-diving marine biologists have discovered two new species of sponge, one in Indonesia and the other in Vietnam – and now realise that other sponges

Five SHIPS Project scuba divers were looking for the remains of an 18th-century shipwreck near Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound national marine park when a

US biologist Lori Schweikert was looking at a hogfish caught in the Florida Keys when she noticed that, even though it was dead, its skin

A beluga whale first spotted in April 2019 at Hammerfest in northern Norway wearing a harness marked “Equipment St Petersburg“ has reappeared – in warmer

Scientists have been studying hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean for the past 46 years – but, beyond microbes in the sediment, they had never

The world’s oldest-known living aquarium fish, the aptly named Methuselah, is even older than previously thought, her age just having been recalculated up from 84

The Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a vast area at threat from deep-ocean mining – and of the 5,000-plus animal species discovered there to

It was described as a “yellow hat” by the ROV videographer who first spotted the mystery object on a deep Gulf of Alaska seamount on

It’s five years since many thousands of octopuses were discovered nesting together deep off the California coast – the largest-known such aggregation on Earth. Then,