If you think ‘Cocaine Bear’ was scary, then these apex predators dusted to the eyeballs should terrify you.
If you’re spending a year studying life on a remote island, you’re going to need some excellent coffee to keep you going.
Scientists from the UK and Australia are harnessing the power of sound to encourage fish to return to the Great Barrier Reef.
You don’t have to travel to the Great Barrier Reef to experience a beautiful underwater kingdom. A new book, featured on CNN, is the perfect illustrator of that point.
South Africa is renowned for its unique beauty, diverse people and rolling mountains. However, under its seas is where the real magic happens.
A team of scientists has captured the world’s first live images of a giant squid in it’s natural habitat. This is the same mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken” – a tentacled monster which was reputed to drag ships and sailors to their doom.
Sharks, particularly Great Whites, have a pretty bad rep. The apex predators are often labelled as man-eaters based on a handful of out of context events. Photographer Daniel Botelho spent two weeks with the ancient beasts and returned with what he calls “definitive proof” that they don’t deserve the label or association.
It’s generally accepted that octopi are very intelligent, clever creatures however the depths of their cunning has never truly been measured, until now. An underwater camera, in South Africa’s False Bay, captured footage of one of the molluscs stealing an entire bait cannister – that was attacehed with three cable ties – while keeping a shark at bay!
A few days ago, retired college biology professor, Bill Bouton, headed to San Luis Obispo, California, to snap some pics of some of his favourite subjects, birds. However, he stumbled on something considerably bigger, and decidedly less aerial.
Scientists researching previously unexplored deep-sea vents in Antarctica stumbled upon a host of new species, including hairy-chested crabs, ghostly octopus and predatory starfish, in what has since been dubbed a “lost world”.