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Marine Biology

Delve into the fascinating world of Marine Biology. We bring you the latest discoveries, research, and news about the diverse life forms that inhabit our oceans.

From the tiniest microorganisms to the largest marine mammals, we explore the complex ecosystems and extraordinary creatures that make the underwater world a realm of endless wonder.

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One of the loggerhead turtles is released off the Azores (Royal Navy)
Navy releases 6 restored turtles in Azores
Grey reef shark (NOAA Picture Library)
Sharks quit hot coral reefs – bird poo offers only upside
View of Cylix nkosi’s head, highlighting diamond-shaped protuberance (© Richard Smith / OceanRealmImages.com) 
UK diver names Africa’s first pygmy pipehorse
Hvaldamir the celebrated beluga whale (OneWhale)
Celeb ‘spy whale’ dies – amid human follower fall-out 
Rarely seen Bathyphysa conifera or flying spaghetti monster (ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute)
Flying spaghetti monsters among deep seamount rarities
Great white shark (Elias Levy)
Great white sharks’ surprise 3-way split
Diver enjoys rare shark encounter in BC
Abrasions and blue paint from the boat can be seen on the basking shark in the aftermath of the strike (Big Fish Lab, OSU)
Basking shark boat-strike captured under water
Pelagite manganese nodule from the Pacific seabed (James St John)
‘Dark oxygen’ is brewed on abyssal seabeds
Moving the spade-toothed whale to preserve it (NZ Department of Conservation)
July brings rare and unusual whale sightings
Great Shark Snapshot banner
Plan dives for ’24 Great Shark Snapshot
For The Love Of Sharks evening at the London’s Royal Geographical Society
Winter wildlife chat: Backshall @ Love Of Sharks, Peschak @ WildPhotos
Oceanic whitetip encounters are prized around the diving world (Shark Trust)
Wanted: Divers’ oceanic & basking shark sightings
The orca Starboard carrying the great white shark's liver in its mouth (Christiaan Stopforth & Francesca Romana Romeiro / SSCSI)
Lone orca killed great white shark in 2 minutes
The characteristic hammer-shaped head is just becoming visible in this image of an embryonic bonnethead shark. The scale bar = 1 cm (Steven Byrum & Gareth Fraser / Department of Biology, University of Florida)
Rare access: Hammerhead shark embryos
Amy Moran on a research dive, picking up a large sea spider (R Robbins)
Ice-divers uncover giant sea spiders’ brooding secret
Europe cracks down on underwater noise: Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whale (NOAA Fisheries / Lisa Conger)
Europe cracks down on underwater noise
Two male humpbacks copulating in Hawaii (Lyle Krannichfeld / Brandi Romano)
Humpbacks’ homosexual encounter caught on camera
A chaunax, a bony fish of the sea toad family, seen at a depth of 1389m on Seamount SF2 inside the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park (Schmidt Ocean Institute CC BY-NC-SA)
100 suspected new species found deep off Chile
Hawksbill turtle on a coral reef - but they are going much deeper to feed (Jeanne A Mortimer)
Tracking tropical turtles – deep down
Two blue whales (NOAA)
Why every blue contains a bit of fin whale
Paul Humann with a young Goliath grouper
Death of Paul Humann: The go-to ID diver
Front view of the newborn white shark (Carlos Gauna / The Malibu Artist)
‘Peculiar’ white shark likely first live newborn ever seen
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Deep coral reef is world’s biggest known
An octopus hatchling emerges from a group of eggs at Tengosed seamount (Schmidt Ocean Institute)
4 new deep-sea octopus species identified
Rare visitor: The beluga whale off Shetland (Richard Shucksmith)
Diver uses drone to capture white whale images
Gus the amiable blue groper (Abyss Scuba Diving)
Killing of iconic blue fish angers divers
The silky shark in 2023 with healed fin. Hooks in both sides of its jaw show that it has been caught and released several times (John Moore)
Divers record shark as it regrows dorsal fin
How did they spot it? The tooth was filmed from a ROV-mounted camera (Jürgen Pollerspöck / SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Zoology)
Deep-sea meg tooth discovery is a first
James Lea at work tagging a tiger shark (Ryan Daly / SOSF)
Sharks: Older Than Trees on YouTube

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