It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has urged bathers to be cautious in and around coastal waters after two attacks — ...

Tagging reef sharks for the new study (photo credit: James Dartnell) (CNS): The Department of Environment (DoE) has secured UK funding for pop-off satellite archival tags to study the movements of ...

Last year, the Java stingaree became the first fish to be declared extinct as a result of human actions. Could there soon be ...

Macdonald adds that sharks and rays take a long time to reproduce ... (Read more from BBC Future about the unknown species in ...

From a 4-metric-ton sloth to a 15-meter snake, not forgetting the mammoth, a prehistoric megafauna with imposing bodies has ...

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

Thirty-three species of shark and 20 species of stingrays have been recorded swimming in seas around Greece in the last 90 ...

The ocean depths still hide unexpected treasures. A new species of shark has just been discovered, changing our view of the ...

Aquarium enthusiasts in China were left shocked when they discovered that a much-hyped giant whale shark on display was, in reality, a robot.

A giant fossil skull found in India’s ­Kashmir Valley 24 years ago belonged to an unknown “straight-tusked” extinct elephant ...