Archive for Aralık, 2011

A daredevil photographer went to extraordinary lengths to photograph these rarely seen sharks, which look like they have been etched from stone. These incredible Greenland sharks can survive for more than 200 years at depths of up to 600 metres […]

Strandings of whales, dolphins and porpoises around the UK have fallen in the last 6 years, according to a report by the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) published this week. There were more than 3,400 strandings on UK beaches […]

CORVALLIS, Oregon — A species of crab found a thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica lives off the bacteria on its claws – bacteria that it fertilizes by waving them in methane and sulfide […]

By Patrick Cassidy pcassidy@capecodonline.com November 05, 2011 CHATHAM — The waters off Cape Cod are known as a graveyard for ships that fail to round the peninsula’s greedy, outstretched arm. Now local divers and shipwreck enthusiasts have a watery destination […]

Skipping along the surface off the coast of South Africa, this seal pup seems to be moving a little faster than usual. And the reason soon becomes clear as a Great White is on his tail – and there is […]

This is an image you are only likely to see once in your life, if experienced first hand. However, this shudderingly close-up image of a Great White shark’s wide-open jaws, seconds before it strikes, has made one of the most […]

Just how tough is your average DSLR memory card? Apparently tough enough to survive a year at the bottom of the ocean. Naturalist and aspiring photographer Markus Thompson was scuba diving in Deep Bay near Vancouver, British Columbia, when he […]

SANTA CRUZ, California — Observations at submarine springs found along the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula are giving scientists a preview of the possible fate of coral reef ecosystems in response to ocean acidification. The naturally low pH (a measure […]

By Axel Bojanowski, SPIEGEL Nov. 12, 2011 In the Atlantic Ocean, off the Canary Island of El Hierro, 20-meter high jets of water are being spat into the air as the sea boils amid the stench of sulfur. The undersea […]

A rare albino lobster that could be more than 30-years-old has been caught in a lobster-pot off the Dorset coast. The two Bridport fishermen who found the crustacean near Portland Bill handed it to Weymouth Sea Life Park. Albinism is […]

The organic missiles are loaded, the water cannons readied and intelligence tip-offs are coming in from all over the world as Sea Shepherd’s 88 crew prepare to do battle on the high seas. Two of the conservation group’s vessels, the […]

Emperor penguins “time” their dives by the number of flaps they can manage with their wings. This is according to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. It aimed to show how the birds reached the “decision” […]

CHICAGO, Illinois — The eel-like body and scrawny “limbs” of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described by University of Chicago scientists, redraws the evolutionary route of […]

the sea lion surfacing after taking off a chunk of octopus. Click inside to see the video. Last Wednesday, Dec. 7, Everett Herald photographer Mark Mulligan caught a rare sight on camera – a stellar sea lion feeding on an […]