Ocean News

One of the primary goals of my research is to determine if bonnethead sharks use the earth’s magnetic field as a compass during navigation. While swimming along the coast, sharks cannot ask “Hey Siri, how do I get…

After 18 years, an exhibition with the theme ‘Marine World’ has been re-opened in the Van Straelen Interpretation Center at the Charles Darwin Research Station. Thanks to the support of the Save Our Seas Foundation, we were able…

Manta rays are undoubtedly amongst the most charismatic marine species, so it’s no surprise they are always found on the top of every ocean lover’s wish list. It has been estimated that through tourism they generate a global…

Four years after the first sawfish conservation strategy was released, what have its impacts been so far? SOSF project leader Ruth H. Leeney of Protect Africa’s Sawfishes provides an overview of the many sawfish projects supported by SOSF since the strategy’s release and assesses how far we have come. (Click…

Understanding what an animal eats is a big deal for biologists- but getting that information isn’t always straightforward, particularly for animals like sharks. The simplest way to find out what a shark ate is to remove the stomach…

Two starry eyed Australians fulfill childhood dreams of searching for whales and camping out in the temperate rainforest of remote coastal BC. Fin Island Whale Research Station. Picture this: it is a silvery grey windless day. The ocean…

We enter the lab and can smell nothing but progress—defined as the lingering odor of fecal samples—thawed that morning to conduct an experiment. These samples were opportunistically collected during field research on the Critically Endangered smalltooth sawfish in…

Winter has come and gone in Florida, and the human snowbirds have flown back up to their roosts in the North, and the annual migration of blacktip sharks (Carcarhinus limbatus) in the Western Atlantic have done the same.…

The massive impacts that humans have on marine species is well known. The causes of these impacts take many forms, from gill nets drifting in mid-ocean that become prisons or eventual tombs for species such as sharks and…

Papua New Guinea is still considered to be a wild frontier of impenetrable rainforests and unexplored waterways and valleys. Imagine what it would have been like for some of the earliest explorers, navigating the amazing coastlines and massive…

The charismatic sawfish with their elongated sharp-toothed rostrum is one of the most critically endangered family of fish on the planet. Comprised of five distinct species, this family of rays has sparked increased conservation efforts throughout the globe over the past 15 years. Today, SOSF project leader Dean Grubbs from…

Another exciting piece of the sawfish puzzle is in place after the January 2018 sawfish expedition to Andros, The Bahamas. Despite inclement weather for the entirety of the expedition, our research team led by Dean Grubbs was able…