All passengers and crew aboard the Maldives scuba diving liveaboard Yasawa Princess were safely evacuated after a major fire broke out on the vessel on Christmas Eve. In an official statement issued ...

Researchers from Norway’s Nord University have revealed for the first time that there are three distinct types of great white shark, following a split in the global population some 100,000 to 200,000 ...

One boat has been sunk and a second damaged by a pod of orcas (killer whales) off the coast of Portugal. The sunken vessel, named Oceanview, which belongs to the Nautic Squad, a sailing based in ...

Pseudocolochirus violaceus – a cucumber shaped like an apple with an unpleasant mode of defence and which breathes through its backside The Sea Apple (Pseudocolochirus violaceus) is the collective ...

Think you know your dive gear, gas mixes, and buoyancy tricks? Dive into the deep end of scuba knowledge with this True or False challenge – not for the faint-finned!

Fish in a hundred vibrant shades flit between monumental towers of coral and the waving jelly arms of sea anemones. The colours and diversity of life on a tropical coral reef can be dazzling. Such a ...

A green sea turtle receives a once-over from an axilspot hogfish, a species of wrasse. Sea turtles are involuntary hosts to more than 30 different organisms living harmlessly on their surface ...

Named for the sailors of Greek mythology, argonauts – also known as paper nautili – are a unique group of shelled octopuses (and can’t sail) The common name ‘paper nautilus’ refers to the paper-thin ...

The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, the world’s largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of marine life, has announced the discovery of 866 new marine species. Ocean Census was ...

Kuwaiti diver Faisal Al Mosawi has set a new Guinness World Record (GWR) for the fastest wheelchair-using scuba diver at a recent event at the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. Al Mosawi, who lost ...

From mucus cocoons to glowing lures, can you guess the creature from the clues in this marine wildlife ‘What am I?’ quiz?

The Maldives government has said it will not reopen its longline fisheries, following a concerted campaign by international conservation groups and local fishermen to overturn a decision made in June ...