ingilizce Haberler Archive

The adult male, which they have nicknamed Iceberg, was spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. It appears to be healthy and leading a normal life in its pod. White whales of various species are occasionally seen; but […]

Many marine mammals live in a world shaped by sound – producing clicks to map their underwater environment out of echoes. Researchers in Hawaii have now discovered just how finely tuned this “echolocation” can be. The scientists found that toothed […]

Even when the hippo began to move, the cheeky croc didn’t get the hint and stayed in position for about 15 minutes before swimming off. The moment was caught on camera in South Africa’s Kruger National Park by field guide […]

As a lone basking shark swims near the Cornwall shore a month early, it seems even in the depths of the ocean, Britain’s unpredictable weather can cause confusion. His early arrival as the first basking shark of the season, was […]

Newly-released photos show the haunting images of Titanic victim’s clothing lining the bottom of the ocean floor 100 years after the New York-bound ship sank in the North Atlantic. A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time […]

WOOD HOLE, Massachusetts — Newly released images of the Titanic wreck site provide the first unrestricted view of the world’s most notable maritime heritage site. These new images add to the already unprecedented collection of images published in the April […]

  James Cameron, center, emerges from the Deepsea Challenger submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench. The dive was part of Deepsea Challenge, a joint scientific expedition by Cameron, the National Geographic Society, and Rolex. At left, […]

These heartbreaking images show the body of a majestic blue whale fatally injured as it slept in a busy shipping lane. It was spotted floating near the surface of the Indian Ocean off the southern tip of Sri Lanka. A […]

Wetpixel’s Picture of the Year 2011 competition has now finished. Many thanks to all who voted for their favorite images and it is great to have had so strong a response to all the images. The winner, who will receive […]

Whale of a time … breathtaking shot The 60-foot-long whale was about to perform a ‘spy hop’ when it raises its head vertically out of the water with its flippers outstretched beneath the surface.   Snaps … Rob spent 30 […]

A whale prepares to clamp its jaws around a shoal of sardines in this remarkable underwater image. Underwater photographer Doug Perrine travelled to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to photograph the magnificent 50-foot-long Bryde’s whale. Scientists know so little about them that […]

An investigation has been launched into the disappearance, the Italian news agency Ansa reports. Pictures of the bell, taken underwater by divers soon after the vessel sank, became a well-known image associated with the disaster. At least 30 people are […]

The discovery of a distinctive sea slug off Siaoliouciou Island (小琉球) in Pingtung County is shedding light on climate change, a scientist said. Although Glaucus atlanticus, the only member of the genus Glaucus, is usually found in tropical areas, it […]

A Nasa satellite has provided jaw-dropping pictures of a huge ‘storm’ brewing under the sea. The swirling mass of water – which measures a whopping 93 miles wide – has been spotted off the coast of South Africa by the […]

This is the shocking moment a killer whale leapt from the sea to kill an exhausted dolphin. The six-ton hunter had chased the female dolphin through the waves before swimming up under her and slamming into her, flipping her 30 […]

A group of Australian divers has broken yet another cave diving record in the depths of the Pearse River resurgence and revealed the underwater cave system is linked to Mt Arthur’s Nettlebed Cave system. The group returned from the remote […]

Killer whales and other ocean predators are targeting and killing the pups of a threatened northern sea lion species at an increasingly high rate, scientists warned this week. Without a reduction in predators, the sea lion population will have difficulty […]

In the first photographed example of friendliness between them, humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins were seen off the coasts of Hawaii playing with each other, according to a January report by the American Museum of Natural History. They have little […]

The picture Russell took (Pic:featureworld.co.uk) A diver gets a close-up he did not bargain for as a tiger shark tries to make a meal of hi Russell Easton was snapping the shark in the Bahamas when it took a snap […]

In a race against time, rescue divers resumed on Sunday the search of the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner. They retrieved the body of a woman wearing a life jacket, thus bringing the number of people confirmed dead to 13. […]

In this Tuesday photo provided by Project Jonah, stranded pilot whales are helped by volunteers at Farewell Spit on New Zealand’s South Island. By msnbc.com staff and news services Some 33 long-finned pilot whales that were refloated Wednesday off a […]

Entrants from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Slovakia shared 10 of the top prizes in the $80,000 Epson Red Sea contest which is dubbed the ‘underwater photography Olympics’. Among the winners was Esteban Tore from Spain who said of his […]

The Bahamas — Dive legend and businessman Neal Watson has been re-elected for another two-year term as president of the Bahamas Diving Association. Stuart Cove, owner of Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas in Nassau and Stuart Cove’s Tiger Beach Safaris on […]

IT’S a scene which plays out in every surfer’s worst nightmares. At about noon last Wednesday, Daniel Falconbridge, 24, of Jannali, sat on his surfboard waiting for a wave at Garie Beach when he noticed a three-metre long dark shape […]

By Maya Yamato MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography Biology Department It’s a Saturday morning at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, Mass., the farthest point on the Cape. I am sleepy, hungry, and slightly dehydrated, but we are on a schedule […]

For most people, getting into a cage and being lowered into the ocean with great white sharks encircling is extreme enough. But this clearly isn’t the case for these two daredevils. The amazing underwater pictures were taken by Scottish snapper […]

Storms that have lashed the Dutch coast this year have created a wave of orphaned baby seals – some so young their umbilical cords are still attached – wrenched from their mothers and washed up on beaches and dikes. An […]

BLUEY’S back. Or is he? The legendary Clovelly Bay groper, famed for befriending many a Sydney snorkeller, may have returned. Or he’s spawned a family. Intriguingly, the new Bluey on the block could also be a female that has changed […]

Animal Planet is developing its own version of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week with a programming stunt dubbed Monster Week to be unveiled at the Television Critics Assn. press tour today. Programs to be featured include a special “Croc-Zilla,” new segs […]

A Briton has drowned in a freak scuba diving accident while saving the life of his girlfriend. Ex-pat Stephen McNulty, 56, and 45-year-old Vicky Spokes were blown into the ocean by a giant wave as they were looking at underwater […]

These remarkable photographs show a group of fearless fishermen feeding shrimp to 25ft giant whale sharks – by hand. Conservationist Shawn Heinrich captured what he described as the ‘overblown feeding of goldfish’ near Oslob in the Philippines. The 40-year-old, who […]

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 […]

Sadly, the coins that Tasko the sea lion swallowed at the Adalaide Zoo in Australia weren’t of the edible variety – like the ones kids enjoy at Chanukah time. Tasko had to undergo surgery to remove the money he gulped […]

If you’re planning to go head-to-head with a sea creature, it’s probably best to start small. Only the very brave, or very stupid, would begin a headbutting competition with a 50-ton sperm whale… after all, its head is one third […]

By David Fleshler 2:40 p.m. EST, November 30, 2011 Could one of these species be the next lionfish? Three non-native tropical fish have reappeared off the southeast Florida coast, years after they had last been seen, according to a news […]

At just a few centimetres long, hatchling loggerhead turtles may seem powerless to resist being swept around the Atlantic Ocean by powerful currents. Turtle But researchers have shown that the tiny turtles can influence where they end up with just […]

Photograph: Brandon Cole ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the […]

Way back in 1990, an episode of The Simpsons introduced Blinky, a mutated orange fish with three-eyes caught in the waters near the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, emblematic of mean Mr. Burns’ callousness towards the environment — and now, it […]

Some people might say that humans beings are herd animals. But these stunning images appear to prove the adage beyond any doubt. These surreal mosaics, made from thousands of swarming human bodies, were the talk of this year’s Pulse LA […]

This is the incredible moment a seagull showed off some spectacular acrobatics – by flying upside down to steal a shrimp dinner right from the mouth of an egret. The unassuming egret had spent more than half an hour patiently […]

A child’s grave site, normally at least 20 to 30 feet underwater, has joined other remnants of old Bluffton, Texas, resurfacing as the drought shrinks the state’s largest inland lake. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)  (AP) BLUFFTON, Texas – Johnny C. Parks died […]

THE VALLY, Anguilla, November 18, 2011 – Fisheries officials in Anguilla said the population of the invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) appears to be growing at a rapid rate and poses a serious threat to its coral reef ecosystems. The Department […]

The project is part of a wider European effort to raise rapidly declining numbers of a fish suffering the effects of overfishing, pollution and disease. In 1999, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) confirmed that the […]

”The police called us on Thursday morning saying ‘Hello, this is the police. We’re bringing you your blue lobster’,” Maria Jämting, CEO of the Havets Hus aquarium in Lysekil, told The Local. Jämting received the call after fisherman Reine Andreasson […]

A 6ft conger eel has been released into the wild so he can find love after a lifting operation involving a crane. The conger eel, called Rip, left Macduff Marine Aquarium in Aberdeenshire to swim to the Atlantic. Staff said […]

IMAGINE you are five metres underwater on a hostile shore where there is an enemy who will kill you if he gets the chance. The cold water is so murky that you can’t see your hands, even when you hold […]

With a deal pending that would see the retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mohawk scuttled as an artificial reef in Southwest Florida, Bill Verge, proprietor of the museum ship, is preparing to the strip the vessel of items with both […]

KEY WEST, Florida — The Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, an artificial reef located in the Florida Keys, was lauded with a Society of American Travel Writers’ Phoenix Award. The honor was announced at the organization’s annual convention being staged now […]

If you’re curious to learn more about the sea creature’s possible motivation, there has been some great research on the understanding of octopus intelligence recently, including this surprisingly moving article in Orion magazine, chronicling a researchers bond with a giant […]

Lions, orcas, dolphins, hyenas, some hawks and several other species collaborate when they hunt, with each individual in the group performing different but complementary actions with the singular goal of bringing down prey. Now we can add a species of […]

Little more than a year after BP oil disaster, seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is “as safe to eat as it was before the oil spill,” the FDA insists on its website. But along the Gulf itself, questions linger […]

Archaeology – SCITECH Huge Prehistoric Sunken Islands Found in Indian Ocean A sonar image of the underwater land masses, almost the size of Tasmania, which scientists believe were once part of the supercontinent Gondwana. PERTH, Australia – Scientists have discovered […]

The site where the fateful Titanic sunk in the Atlantic Ocean looks set to be a busy area next year as travel companies cash in and mark a century since the tragedy. While two cruises – set to trace the […]

ROCHESTER, New York — The fictitious storybook character Dr. Doolittle was known for talking with animals. Caroline DeLong, an assistant professor of psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology, is a real-life Doolittle whose research focuses on object discrimination in goldfish […]

Fishing boats ‘killing up to 320,000 seabirds a year’ : A dead seabird is hooked on a a fishing line A dead albatross hooked on a fishing line. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images Up to 320,000 seabirds a year are being killed […]

A cute grey seal found clinging to rocks after being orphaned during last week’s gales and torrential rain is being nursed back to health. The tiny all-white seal was found cowering and shivering after storms battered its breeding grounds, separating […]

BARRY Brant, of the Whitsundays, has beaten 742 entrants in a competition to name the male baby white whale that was spotted off the Whitsunday coast in September. Tourism Whitsunday and Whitsunday Escape ran the competition, during which more than […]

When a great white shark approaches you it’s best to keep an eye on its teeth. But this shark turned into a snappy slapper as it belted a photographer with its tail. Photographer Don Carpenter was in a cage off […]

It could be the grim denouement from a science fiction film, as the silhouette of a man solemnly watches a glowing sea, with a child perched atop his shoulders. But this is not cinema trickery – it’s a natural phenomena […]

Strong waves resulting from Hurricane Rina have shifted the Kittiwake wreck about 60 feet out to sea, divers who dove the site over the weekend have reported. Jason Washington of Ambassador Divers said the former USS Kittiwake, which was deliberately […]

(CNN) — She was named Sara, after the daughter of the man who found her, and she got to go home Wednesday. For her, home is the waters of the Florida Keys, a place no one expected she’d ever return […]

We’re used to seeing them tightly packed in tins on our supermarket shelves, but even in nature it seems that sardines stick close together. These amazing pictures show shoals of the fish packed so dense off the coast of the […]

GAINSVILLE, Florida — In the waters along Florida’s east and west coasts, Florida State University marine biologists are collecting new data on the once severely overfished Atlantic goliath grouper, a native species that is making a comeback in the southeastern […]

An albino, one-eyed shark fetus removed from a pregnant bull shark captured recently in the Sea of Cortez was one of 10 babies inside the large predator. All others were normal in color and appearance. A story with very few […]

How did the crocodile cross the lake? He hopped on the back of a hippo to get to the other side. It may sound like a joke but these amazing pictures from Tanzania capture a crazy croc doing just that. […]

  I’m all for going green, but what options do you have if you want to go diving into the ocean? It’s not like there’s a bike lane down there, right? Well, there might be soon if Stephane Rousson has […]

Italian free divers Mike Maric (R) and Ilaria Bonin kiss in an attempt to set the world record for the longest underwater kiss, in an oceanic tank at the Gardaland Sea Life Aquarium in Castelnuovo del Garda, northern Italy July […]

LAKE WYLIE, SC (WBTV) – A fishing trip on Lake Wylie went a little differently than one Clover man planned when the fish he caught bit him with human-like teeth. Frank Yarborough went fishing along Lake Wylie on September 6th […]

Christ Sirett, 52, a station manager at Guildford, completed the challenge with Mark Bruce. The pair donned wetsuits and air tanks to take on the relay challenge at Wraysbury Dive Centre in Staines. They took it in turns to pedal […]

A chambered nautilus swam near Gnemelis Drop-Off, Palau, in the southwestern Pacific. Marine biologists have begun to consider whether it should be listed as an endangered species. By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: October 24, 2011 It is a living fossil […]

A team of astronauts and scientists who are living and working on the ocean floor as part of a simulated trip to an asteroid are nearing the halfway mark of their 13-day mission. Six “aquanauts” are experimenting with different ways […]

AUKLAND, New Zeland — The hagfish found in New Zealand’s deepest waters is grotesque enough, thanks to its scary protruding teeth straight from a horror film. Now, scientists have witnessed the full power of its other gruesome feature – a […]

GIBSONBURG, Ohio — Slicing his cupped hands through the chilly water to propel himself forward, John Harris made his way to the submerged platforms at Whitestar Quarry. He checked the depth on his gauges, flooded his mask and cleared out […]

A US-Albanian archaeological mission claims to have found the well-preserved wreck of a Roman cargo ship off Albania’s coast, complete with some 300 wine jars — all empty, alas. The 30-metre long wreck dates to the 1st century BC and […]

Most days, Philippe Croizon and Arnaud Chassery are ploughing the waters of their local boating lake, training for their next big challenge. But beneath the waterline, they are very different. Philippe has no arms and no legs. Seventeen years ago, […]

Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Published April 11, 2010 Three miles (five kilometers) below the surface of the Caribbean Sea (map), great volcanic chimneys gush subterranean water hot enough to melt lead. Found via robotic submersibles on April 6, […]

The owner of two conjoined turtles is trying to decide whether to have the animals separated. Todd Ray – owner of what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of double headed animals – was given the turtle by […]

The seal feels perfectly safe lying on the Antarctic ice even if it is surrounded by a pod of killer whales. But within minutes it has been knocked into the water in a clever team tactic before being killed. These […]