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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Orca and calf from the pod that hung out with the lifeboat (RNLI / Longhope)
Killer whales treat lifeboat crew
Twain's fluke (Jodi Frediani / NOAA )
Alien-hunters inspire world-first chat with whale
Grey reef sharks (Christopher Leon / SOSF)
Divers catch grey reef sharks napping
The rarely seen megamouth shark and her pups (NMP Zoology Division / Annabelle Lapitan, Agricultural Technologist of LGU-Dipaculao)
Megamouth sharks prove internal egg theory
Dolphins can perceive electrical fields (Nuremberg Zoo / Dr Tim Huttner)
Superpower helps dolphins pinpoint buried prey
Two green turtles (Mark Sullivan / NOAA Fisheries)
Green turtle sex-bias: new cause for concern
The first Seychelles blue whale sighting (James Loudon / Big Blue Films)
Pygmy blue whales linked to Seychelles
Filming in the aquarium (OCT)
Secrets of the Aquarium
Grey whales (Greg Schechter)
Whales: Arctic melt threat but promise in Dominica
Kangia ringed seal (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources)
Ringed seals identified as new species
Nervous system of an older batstar (Laurent Formery / Olympic / Evident Image of the Year Award)
Ain’t got no body: Why starfish are just crawling heads
‘Look what I brought home!’ (Matt Rogerson)
Blue-ringed stowaway surprises snorkeller
Orca guides hunters on a whale chase in the 1910-20s (Charles E Wellings / Eden Killer Whale Museum)
Old Tom, Killers of Eden and their DNA secrets
Methuselah the lungfish is older than previously thought (CAS)
Lungfish Methuselah even older than thought 
The marks that had scientists baffled for a decade (NIWA)
What left these marks? Deepsea mystery solved
The rare blue lobster (Mallory Haas / The SHIPS Project)
Divers give Lucky Blue another crack at life
The golden orb as first sighted Okeanos Explorer (NOAA Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska)
Mystery of the golden orb
A Greenland shark in Belize (Devanshi Kasana / Florida International University)
What’s a Greenland shark doing in the Caribbean?
Aggregation of female pearl octopuses (© 2022 MBARI)
Octopus Garden is a deep-sea egg accelerator
Hogfish (Albert Kok)
Hogfish ‘take photos of own skin from inside’
A post-reproductive mother travels with her two sons and others (David Ellifrit / Centre for Whale Research)
What makes male killer whales ’mother’s boys’?
Caribbean trumpetfish (Steve Weinman)
Shadow-hunters: Why trumpetfish hitch rides
Vulcanoctopus, mussels and tubeworms near Tica Vent
Into the underworld: New ecosystem found beneath hot smokers
Great white shark (Elias Levy)
White sharks assemble – in new Atlantic hotspot
Rescuers try to help the pilot whales (Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia)
An expert on the stranding of 97 pilot whales & their mysterious ‘huddling’
Anguilla anguilla (Bernard Dupont)
Rise & fall of the Loch Ness Monster eel
Ambergris extracted from the sperm whale on La Palma (IUSN / University of Las Palmas)
Whale’s gut reveals £430k ‘treasure’ that killed it
The first octopus of the cruise is spotted in the control room (Sschmidt Ocean Institute)
Deep octopus nurseries on ‘edge of human imagination’
Cladocroce lamellata was found at Bangka in Indonesia (DISTAV)
Divers discover new purple & green sponges
A military-trained dolphin – Russia steps up defences
Russia reinforces anti-diver dolphin squad

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