24 January 2023
Turbidity currents are cascades of sediment that tumble down Earth’s 9000 submarine canyons carrying carbon, plastics and pharmaceuticals into the deep sea. We are finally learning just how often these dramatic events occur.
8 June 2018
Fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska are being stalked by enormous sperm whales, which charge in and rip huge volumes of fish from the lines
5 June 2018
We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them
21 May 2018
The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold
2 May 2018
Huge sea spiders move excruciatingly slowly, but they can still catch prey animals that move much faster than them – because their prey sometimes crash into the seafloor
3 April 2018
Bowhead whales are such talented singers they can make two sounds simultaneously, and they invent new songs every year
2 April 2018
Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat
22 March 2018
Giant devil rays have been filmed courting for the first time, and it turns out the males do not even wait for the females to give birth
16 January 2018
The slick of oil condensate from a stricken tanker in the East China Sea is a threat to all marine life, not least because it is invisible
19 December 2017
Parasitic crustaceans called castrator pea crabs spend most of their lives hiding in the sex organs of limpets, and that makes it difficult to find a mate
