Ocean News

Deep below the Nazca Plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the writhing earth’s crust has belched molten lava for more than 20 million years. These geological dramas gave birth to the Galápagos Archipelago, a collection of islands that have clawed their way to the sea’s surface over millennia.

Although tiny specks in the Indian Ocean, D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll are home to a dazzling community of species. In March 2020, as the world took shelter from Covid-19, Seychelles declared a phased marine protected area around them.

As a first-time natural history filmmaker, Pippa Ehrlich took on the challenge of co-directing a film about an octopus. The result, 'My Octopus Teacher', has won acclaim around the world. Pippa talks to a former colleague at the Save Our Seas Foundation.

The prevalence of unhealthy and abusive cultures in marine science, especially shark research, has been described before. For years, conversations about building a more diverse and equitable future have yielded limited results. Why, and how can we move beyond talk?

To help researchers to identify them, Prof. Mahmood Shivji of the DEEPEND Consortium and Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center is using large-scale DNA sequencing to develop diagnostic barcodes of the anglerfishes in the Gulf of Mexico. But now these deep-sea fishes are shining a light in an unexpected…

An educational book for communities in Mozambique Written by Ruth H. Leeney, with illustrations by Owen Williams and Ruth H. Leeney ‘The Dugongs of Bazaruto’ (and in Portuguese: ‘Os Dugongos do Arquipélago do Bazaruto‘) is an educational book about dugongs and their main habitat in Mozambique – the Bazaruto Archipelago…

Since the beginning of the project, a decade ago, scientists from the GWSP have carried out ground-breaking science for the conservation of this endangered species, working in collaboration with multiple organizations and expert scientists from around the world.

In the wild, many species appear identical: same colour, same size, same patterns, especially in the case of fish. However, by getting to know more about a particular species, it is much easier to find ways to differentiate…

Undeniable is the beauty of South Africa’s oceans, but beyond that marvel is their diversity. Our oceans are, in their own right, a host to their own rainbow nation. For as long as we have been documenting our…

New genetic analyses confirm that tiger shark populations are genetically distinct   It probably shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Sereia made headlines when satellites detected her off Indonesia’s coast in April 2020. Her whereabouts had been tracked since November 2018, when she’d been tagged by Dr…

The Maldivian atolls offer prime conditions for reef manta rays to thrive; channel openings with coral reef “cleaning stations”, plankton trapping bays that provide a hotspot for manta ray feeding frenzies, and shallow lagoons that act as a…