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MELBOURNE, Australia, March 19, 2014 (ENS) – The Japanese whaling fleet has left the waters of the Antarctic Treaty Zone, ending whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for this season, according to data from the whale defense organization Sea […]

Scientists have discovered a sea snake that dehydrates for several months before reconstituting itself after heavy rains, according to a new study. The sea snake, called Hydrophis platurus or the yellow-bellied sea snake, is described in the latest issue of […]

Thousands of floating dead fish have bizarrely appeared on the top of a scenic lake in Indonesia. The mass death of the fish in Maninjau lake, West Sumatra province, is apparently caused by a sudden change of weather conditions, according […]

A small mackerel. Photo alex.coles/flickr.com A 10-year-old girl injured in what was thought to be a shark attack at Lennox Head yesterday afternoon may have been bitten by a mackerel. The girl suffered ‘very minor injuries’ to her hand when […]

From a basket hoisted on the back of his trawler, fisherman Freddy Gutmann proudly picks up a giant geoduck clam fresh from the frigid waters off the northwestern Canadian coast. “This one is a great specimen,” Gutmann says as sea […]

Bottlenose dolphins use sponges to protect their noses while foraging for food. Female dolphins also appear to teach their young how to protect their sensitive noses and it is believed they are descended from a ‘sponging Eve’, a female which […]

People who save a rare freshwater mammal found only in China’s Yangtze River basin can claim a cash prize from the local fisheries bureau, it appears. Reporting that a Yangtze finless porpoise has been injured or is at risk – […]

(FoxNews) Diners at Downtown Disney’s T-REX Café restaurant in Orlando were treated to a wet and wild dining experience when a giant fish tank sprung a leak on Monday afternoon. While patrons were eating around 4 p.m., something caused a […]

The arctic whale known as the narwhal is famous for the spiral tusk protruding from its head, but scientists have long battled over the horn’s purpose. On Tuesday, scientists published a study that advances a bold theory about how the […]

This restaurant otter lock their doors next time. The patrons of Skippy’s Fast Food in Alesund, Norway, were terrorized last week by a wounded otter that made its way into the establishment, the Independent reported. “We did not know what […]

S You should probably never try this when you go scuba diving but watch this scuba diver turned shark whisperer instantly immobilize a shark and put it to sleep with a touch of the nose. The diver uses a technique […]

Prof Colin Simpfendorfer is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture at James Cook University. He has more than 25 years of experience in researching sharks, and has published extensively in the scientific literature on shark biology, […]

Dolphin attack … surfer John Wolfson / Picture: Jason Corroto Source: Supplied WHAT’S that Flipper? You want me to get out of the way? If only dolphins really could communicate just like the main marine mammal in the ’60s television […]

Seal-hunters must have the same rights as fishermen, Canada’s Environment Minister Leonoa Aglukkaq insisted Monday, as her country battled a Brussels’ trade ban at the WTO. Speaking on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization appeal hearing on the European […]

A whale rescue expert says the area off southwestern Newfoundland where 30 or so white-beaked dolphins were spotted trapped in pack ice on the weekend is notorious for such strandings. Wayne Ledwell, head of Whale Release and Strandings in Portugal […]

Deep underwater in southeast Mexico there is a sign which warns divers that anyone who swims through the underwater caves could face death. But that did not faze underwater photographer Lisa Collins, from Essex, England, who threw herself into the […]

S The American Museum of Natural History is two years into a three-year project to create “in-depth descriptions” for its expedition archives. And they’re documenting it online. It’s called the “Hidden Collections.” Top image: “Hall of Ocean Life, showing assembling […]

  The dive teams, battling high winds and cold water and unusual depth, were on their last legs this afternoon when finally, about 2 p.m., they accomplished what they had set out to do: They recovered the body of 21-year-old […]

The Indian Ocean base on the Chagos Islands has been one of the world’s most isolated and controversial military installations since Britain forcibly removed hundreds of islanders in the early 1970s, abandoning them to destitution, to make way for US […]

HONOLULU — Hawaii officials have been looking for a humpback whale that appears to be caught in fishing gear and is dragging red buoys. Fishing line seems to be wrapped across the whale’s body and tail, Ed Lyman, the large […]

Talk about a jaw-dropping specimen: An extinct California porpoise was found to have a lower jaw extending well beyond the upper, the first known example of a mammal with a big underbite. The fossilized porpoise, which lived 1.6 to 5 […]

Chris Robinson has spent the last two years building this tsunami-proof capsule in his Palo Alto backyard. Photos by Mark Mahaney “No one is going to wear a jet pack on their back as they work in their office,” Robinson […]

A MARINE biologist has praised pupils of an Aberdaron primary school after they found one of her shark tags, worth over £3,000, during a recent beach-clean. Jackie Hall, based on the Isle of Man, has been running the Manx Basking […]

A large pod of false killer whales passed through Southern California coastal waters Wednesday, for the first time since 2001. The first sighting, by Capt. Mike Bursk of the Explorer out of the Ocean Institute, was at about 11 a.m. […]

Robot fish are typically pale imitations at best — even when they move quickly, they don’t move all that gracefully. MIT’s new soft robotic fish should be much closer to the real animal, however. Instead of relying on rigid joints […]

There’s a battle over a former Canadian naval destroyer escort ship docked in a Gambier Island bay. Gambier homeowner Gary MacDonald and members of The Save Halkett Bay Campaign are lobbying to prevent the HMCS Annapolis from being sunk in […]

Bob Irwin told The Courier-Mail that he never wants to watch the video of the fatal stingray attack. “I had the opportunity to see it but I chose not to watch it,” he said. “No, I never want to see […]

A SURFER has escaped with minor cuts and stitches after fighting off a shark clamped on to his foot at Lighthouse Beach on Wednesday evening. After detailed forensic analysis of the victim’s wounds and flipper damage, shark biologists from the Department of Primary Industries have determined […]

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is looking for citizen-scientists – spies basically – who are willing to report on mating habits of horseshoe crabs whenever they come across them. Horseshoe crabs have been spawning for millions of years […]

While humans have been using sonar since the 1940s, marine mammals have been hunting prey with it for tens of millions of years. Now a new fossil study suggests an ancient whale used sound beams to find food 28 million […]

WASHINGTON – Amelia Earhart’s plane disappeared in 1937 and it remains one of the world’s enduring mysteries. Now, explorers are excited about new evidence that could confirm that artifacts found on a remote South Pacific island are from the wreckage […]

        Clare Cullen– Published 12 March 2014 09:20 AM Over two million people have viewed the touching video of a Bottlenose dolphin being helped by an underwater camera crew following it’s interruption. The dolphin interrupted an underwater filming […]

S Illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini was famously capable of holding his breath for over three minutes. But today, competitive breath-hold divers can squeeze ten, fifteen, even twenty minutes out of a single lungful of air. How do these […]

Australia has successfully hatched its first shark born via artificial insemination with hopes that the development can ultimately be used to help breed threatened species, an aquarium said. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium said the brown banded bamboo shark pup was […]

Scott Glenn, Co-leader of the Challenger Glider Mission and Professor of  Physical Oceanography at Rutgers University, said: “The technology underpinnings of this mission are truly enabling our researchers to gather more and better data than ever before, enhancing the basis […]

Now home to shrimps, tropical fish and the odd baracuda, a World War Two warplane lies covered in algae, resting on the sea bed. The Douglas Dakota DC-3, which was used as a transporter by a Turkish paratroop regiment in […]

) Vegas Expert Nicole Lucht scuba dives into Le Rêve – The Dream’s underworld as part of the Vegas show’s Diver’s Dream experience at Wynn Las Vegas. Concentrating on my breathing, I tried to focus as one of my tour […]

We have become all too accustomed to rain, snow and hail coming out of the sky, but today villagers in South Devon were greeted by a more unusual weather event – falling fish. As they were waving their children off […]

Coastguards at Littlehampton have now found five dolphins and porpoises along the shores of West Sussex and others have been discovered in Dorset and Cornwall. Marine experts say the huge waves pounding the beaches have taken a terrible toll because […]

A B.C. geophysicist specializing in underwater missions says it could cost tens of millions of dollars to bring up the wreck of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet if it is found on the ocean floor. It is still not clear […]

The great white shark dubbed Lydia by the researchers who tagged and are tracking her has been seen heading toward the United Kingdom for the past several days. But the shark has now changed course and is heading northwest, according […]

Plant-gorging grass carp probably could survive in all of the Great Lakes, scientists said Monday, adding that if the fish get established, they might significantly damage the environment. The fight to prevent Asian carp from reaching the inland seas has […]

From a the wreck of a Japanese warplane to grinning great white sharks, these are just some of the thousands of entries in the largest underwater photography competition. Nearly 8,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com competition with 17 categories […]

sea lion whiskers This month marks the beginning of the breeding season for endangered Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea) as well as a great opportunity for citizen scientists to help conserve this rare species. A new project called the Whisker […]

A group of divers come face-to-face with a school of deadly sharks, risking death or serious injury if one of the predators decides to strike. The freedivers – Carlos Estrabeau, 28, and 29-year-old Ocean Ramsey – got up close and […]

The victim, named locally as 40-year-old Spaniard Israel Franco Moreno, is said to have bled to death after his leg got caught in a metal sheet A diver working on the wreck of the Costa Concordia has died after becoming […]

With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water. The surfers are pictured in a barrel, where the wave is hollow when it is breaking, and wiping out from the unique perspective of under the […]

These incredible photographs show the moment a diver got to within touching distance of a 33ft (10m) shark. Three friends, including photographer Pablo Cersosimo, 45, from Argentina, found the whale shark – which is relatively harmless but would have weighed […]

A group of wildlife watchers scan the open ocean for activity – as a huge whale drifts just below them. These amazing images show a 50-tonne southern right whale and its calves swim within touching distance of a small tourist […]

Scientists in Mexico’s Laguna Ojo de Liebre, or Scammon’s Lagoon, on Sunday discovered conjoined gray whale calves. It might be the first documented case of conjoined twin gray whales. (Conjoined twins have occurred in other species, such as fin, sei […]

They went in search evidence of the world’s melting ice caps, but instead a team of climate scientists have been forced to abandon their mission … because the Antarctic ice is thicker than usual at this time of year. The […]

WASHINGTON – Names can mean a lot. The commissioners of Charles County think so, so they’re holding a contest to give a species of fish an image upgrade. The snakehead comes from Asia, but it’s been in the area for […]

When Angela Clarke’s son Tim told her it hurt to swim, her heart sank. The teenager from Aberdare loved swimming and the water helped ease the pain of his scoliosis – a curvature of the spine. Tim, 17, who also […]

These incredible images show the moment a fearless diver gets up close and personal with one of the most dangerous sharks in the world. Carlos Estrabeau not only swam alongside bull sharks without a cage, he even coaxed them to […]

A family of sperm whales have shown their gentle side by allowing a group of divers to swim alongside them in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. Known as the world’s largest predators, sperm whales can weigh up to 45 […]

Some people draw the line at eating food with eyes, but how about fish with human-like teeth? This creepy creature is a called sheepshead fish, and it has pearly whites just like ours. There are incisors front-and-center, then molars — […]

Being hooked by a fisherman is probably up there with the worst things that could happen to a shark. But what about becoming bait for an even bigger beast as you’re being hauled into the boat? This was the fate […]

POMPANO BEACH (CBSMiami) — A giant blue eyeball washed ashore Wednesday in Pompano Beach. It is unknown what species the softball-size eyeball came from. Judging by the eyeball’s gargantuan size, some propose it could be a giant squid or a […]

Ordinskaya Cave (also called “Orda Cave”), located near the Russian city of Perm, is the world’s largest underwater gypsum cave, its rich mineral walls lending the cavern an otherworldly beauty that is perfect for a supernatural scene. Photographer Viktor Lyagushkin […]

These terrifying pictures show the moment a photographer was circled by a hungry shark – for two hours. Brave Sam Cahir refused to panic during the real-life Jaws scenario – getting in the water with his camera to capture these […]

In many cities, payphones are rapidly disappearing from the streets, which is no real surprise in a world where most people carry a cellphone. But what do you do with all those old phone booths? A Japanese art collective has […]

LEIDEN, The Netherlands — Coral specialist Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, recently published the description of a new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs. It differs […]

View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. There’s plenty that Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Rahm Emanuel don’t agree on, but they both appear to be united in their desire to clean up the Chicago River. Earlier this year, the two joined […]

The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) is one of Antarctica’s top predators. It kills penguins and smaller seals by biting them with sharp canine teeth and repeatedly smashing them against the ocean surface to flay and dismember them. But it now […]

HOLLYWOOD, Florida — Some deep-sea crabs have eyes sensitive to ultraviolet light, which they may use to snatch glowing plankton and stuff it in their mouths, a new Nova Southeastern University study suggests. Tamara Frank, Ph.D., a marine biologist and […]

A sea lion was caught admiring his own reflection – unaware that he was in fact staring into the lens of an underwater camera The vain animal was captured off the coast of Hornby Island, Canada when its herd surrounded […]

A WHITE whale believed to be Migaloo was sighted in the Whitsundays last week. On Thursday, August 30, the Cruise Whitsunday vessel ‘Seaflight’ was returning to Airlie Beach when passengers and crew sighted the whale near the Hook Passage at […]

According to Pat Bradley, one of the cameramen who documented US atomic tests during the 1950s, the Wahoo and Umbrella underwater explosions were more amazing than a atmospheric nuclear explosion. Watch this stunning video and listen to him explaining his […]

It was the ‘Giant’ German aircraft shot from the skies while delivering tanks and weaponry to the battlefield during the Second World War. Now nearly 70 years after being shot down by a British fighter, experts have found the only […]

SANDPOINT – River otters cut a cuddly image when they cavort in and around the water, but recent attacks at Priest Lake serve as a reminder that the predators are pretty adept at harming people. “It’s not something you’d want […]

A popular Illinois lake is on guard after the discovery in its waters of the exotic pacu fish – infamous for killing men by ripping off their testicles. Families reported being wary of entering the waters of Lake Lou Yaeger […]

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho – Here’s an image you usually don’t see without the help of Photoshop: two-headed fish. Pictures of deformed baby trout with two heads show up in a study of creeks in a remote part of southeast Idaho. […]

JUPITER ISLAND — Simon Bilts must have done a double take when he found it in the sand: a two-headed loggerhead sea turtle hatchling. On the morning of July 31, the biologist with Jensen Beach-based Ecological Associates was excavating a […]

An in-depth look at shark teeth has found that they contain fluoride, the active ingredient of most toothpaste and dental care mouthwashes. It helps to explain why sharks are so effective at either tearing or cutting prey. Their teeth are […]

The ship survived Iwo Jima, drug wars, the Mariel boat-lift, and one of the most-horrific North Atlantic storms of the 20th Century. But at age 69, the fabled Zuni/Tamaroa is confronting a more formidable adversary – the sedentary life. While […]

From giant whales and sharks to colourful fish these are the incredible images which offer a glimpse of life beneath the waves. The mesmerising images were taken by photographer Brian Skerry who risks his life swimming alongside the world’s most […]

Next time you are asked to babysit, spare a thought for this male fish. The cardinalfish, found off the coast in Malaysia  is a mouthbrooder, where the males carry all the eggs in their mouth for weeks. And the poor […]

If NASA’s underwater practice session is any indication of what a real space mission to an asteroid will be like, you can expect to follow along with the exploration of a near-Earth asteroid via Facebook, Twitter and the Web — […]

A huge shoal of sardines surrounded unsuspecting diver in seas off the Philippines allowing them to capture amazing picture of a breathtaking natural phenomenon. The shoal was captured on camera by Nadya Kulagina on the last dive of her trip […]

Tenderly letting her child swim ahead, the mother whale keeps a watchful eye on her offspring. For the infant ‘southern white whale’ is an albino, standing out in the glorious South Africa sunlight with a body that is almost entirely […]

THIS breaching adult humpback whale was caught mid-leap, stunning the 80 tourists aboard a Sea World Whale Watch tour just a short distance off the Gold Coast. Sea World Whale Watch marine biologist Silje Vindenes was able to use intuition […]

MATING humpback whales have been captured on camera for the first time – and the act is one of amazing gentleness between the marine giants. Australian photographer Jason Edwards, who took the images off Tonga, was stunned by the “brief […]

When ‘teeth marks’ appeared in cables of an underwater camera system in the Bahamas and the camera cut out, the scientists in charge began to look around for a cuplrit. Edd Brooks of the Bahamas Cape Eleuthera Institute took a […]

China’s manned submersible Jiaolong and its three divers rose from over 6,000 meters below the sea in the Mariana Trench after setting the country’s deep-sea diving record on Friday. The dive, which began at 9 am Friday, was the first […]

WARNING SIGNS: A ‘snowblower’ hydrothermal vent spews hot water and white bits of bacterial matter showing that the lava flow that was erupted in 2011 at Axial Seamount is still cooling. (Photo: Bill Chadwick/Oregon State University) An underwater volcano gave […]

Nature can often leave us marvelling with its expressive and colourful displays of beauty. But a show of pure happiness put on by wildlife is probably a little more unusual. That’s exactly what these Alaskan humpback whales were photographed doing, […]

The final resting place of a First World War submarine, whose two Royal Navy captains won the Victoria Cross, has been found after 94 years under the sea. HMS E14 was discovered off the coast of Turkey with the first […]

Forget Angry Birds, this is one angry fish. This tropical jawfish certainly looks like it got out of the wrong side of the bed as it gives the photographer a fearsome look. Yet despite its appearance, the burrowing fish is […]

A team of scientists from Monash University and the University of Bristol has found that the tiny teeth of a long-extinct prehistoric fish are the sharpest that have ever been recorded. A study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal […]

This daredevil diver is working himself up into a right lava – by trying to mould red hot 1,000C molten rock with his own hands. Bud ‘the Lava Man’ Turpin is pictured here descending 130ft to the lava tube of […]

A frogman glides through a crystal blue lagoon beneath a breathtaking canopy of stars and in another picture a diver examines a wall of bright green moss illuminated by an underwater lamp. These stunning photographs were taken by National Geographic […]

The threat of killer whales could be why societies of sperm whales in the Atlantic and Pacific differ so much, researchers say. The sperm whale, the largest toothed whale, possesses the largest brain of any organism on Earth. These leviathans […]