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What happens to baby turtles after they scramble off the sandy beaches where they are born and swim into the open ocean?
Dugongs - where can you dive with them and why aren't there more of them? Said to have inspired tales of mermaids, they can eat as much as 40 kg (88 lb) of seagrass a day, leaving distinctive troughs.
Wildlife tourism including white shark cage-diving is growing in popularity, but these industries remain highly contentious amongst divers, conservationists and scientists alike. New tool helps judge the impact.
Researchers find dolphins to be far more similar to humans than previously thought. For those who have ever observed monkeys and apes – our closest evolutionary cousins – in the wild, in a zoo,...
By day these beautiful animals keep curled up but on night-dives you see them in their warm colours, with their feathery arms extended.
Best of Show is a once-in-a-life-time moment where a curious octopus took a selfie of itself with the photographer's family.
Christmas Island red crab's mammoth migration. Over 40 million of them walk up to 14 km a day to the sea. When rains are late the crabs rush to seaside, if not then they linger for up to a week on the way to feed.
99.8% of shark fins come from Indo-Pacific: conservation efforts in Atlantic Ocean are working
Diving with Oceanic Whitetips The glorious oceanic whitetip sharks spend a lot of time in shallow water, tend to swim slowly and are very curious. All of these mean that divers can get superb closeup view of them....
Tumble drying in a washing machine releases microplastic fibres as "laundry lint" which damages the gills, liver and DNA of marine species, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Plymouth exposed the...