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...
In April the Underwater Photography Guide launched the Ocean Art Safe Under the Sea underwater photo competition to help raise money to fight coronavirus.
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Not all humans are morning people. Neither, according to a new study, are all sperm whales - at least when it comes to foraging for food.
The research, led by the University of East...
The young fish like to seek out large animals like sharks, groupers and dugongs for protection, acting as pilot fish.
Main photo credit: Alexander Vasenin, CC by SA 4.0
There was a vital conservation win for a critically endangered species of shark this week at the 13th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of...
People eat a lot of fish. Different sex-changing fish can follow several signals that prompt them to change sex. Some change from female to male at a fixed size or age. Often, fisheries will only harvest fish over a certain size. This means catching more males because they are usually bigger, which then skews the population towards female. Not enough males are then available to fertilise all the eggs produced by the females.