Jill Studholme

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...

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.

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...

From now to 30 November 2020 you can submit your images to the prestigious Ocean Art competition. Prizes worth $40,000 are on...

The young fish like to seek out large animals like sharks, groupers and dugongs for protection, acting as pilot fish.

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.