Human Activity Is Causing Toxic Thallium to Enter the Baltic Sea, According to ... first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals ...

The infamous box jellyfish ... also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off Northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific. They are pale blue and ...

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported ...

there’s rich marine life. On a clear day, you can stick your face in the water, snorkeling around the coral reefs, and most certainly spot a diversity of sea animals. And, with pure white sand ...

Marine turtles have been in our oceans for over 100 million years. They’re brilliant navigators, swimming hundreds or thousands of kilometres between feeding and nesting grounds. But they face lots of ...

Areas with populations of seahorses can be a good indicators of healthy waters and habitats for other marine animals. This long-snouted seahorse was spotted off the coast of Plymouth in 2021 The ...

British boffins hope to stop rare snail from going extinct by moving them 150 miles ...

The ridges in coral reefs act as barriers and can reduce wave energy by up to 97%, providing crucial protection from threats such as tsunamis. They help protect areas such as mangrove forests and ...

Fisherman discovers mysterious deep ocean 'alien from the depths' with strange tentacles ...

These reefs are often referred to as the "rainforest of the sea". This allegory underestimates the complexity of coral reefs ... life cycles of many marine plants and animals, and often the ...

Coral reefs provide an important ecosystem for marine life, offering food and shelter among their crevices and branches for animals including fishes, molluscs, sea urchins and sponges. Corals are ...