Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing. Last month scientists fitted acoustic tags to 50 gulper sharks, swellsharks and green eye dogfish near Port Lincoln, South Australia. They will track the ...
A giant squid filmed by Japanese televisionResearchers expect huge scientific interest as they thaw the largest known specimen of the world's biggest invertebrate, a colossal squid, at the Museum of New Zealand on April 30. The squid was caught by the San Aspiring* longliner in the Ross Sea in 2007, and snap-frozen. The squid weighs 495 kilograms ...
World Ocean Day was created in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Although not yet officially designated by the United Nations, World Ocean Day is an opportunity each year to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to the sea. The Ocean ...
One by one, a machine operator has been shoving hundreds of retired New York City subway cars off a barge, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea ...
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