Ocean News

With more than 80,000 visitors annually, the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) is one of the most visited places by tourists in the Galapagos Islands. The Van Straelen Interpretation Center, part of the visit to our Research Station,…

Sometimes working with endangered species can be difficult. Personally, I have a lot of respect for my fellow elasmobranch biologists who collect samples and sightings data from fish markets and other locations that bring you close to only…

As ecologists, we spend a lot of time thinking about how organisms interact with each other and their environment. One of the most important aspects of studying an animal’s ecology is knowing what it eats. Knowing an animal’s…

I suppose you never really plan to be a stalker. It probably just happens by accident most of the time. One minute you’re admiring someone or something, then suddenly you’re obsessively following the target around hoping to catch…

Summer is the best season of the year for enjoying the coasts and beaches of the Canary Islands. Every year countless tourists come to our islands to relax and catch some sun. Summer is also the best time…

It’s wintertime in south Florida, and we have a lot of winter visitors of the human variety. We also have thousands of shark visitors too. Every year, thousands of blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) from the Western Atlantic migrate…

We arrived at Katatai Village mid-morning to pick up our local contact, Jogara Page who is chairman of this village. Today’s adventure would take us to Sui Village, a small community situated on the southern side of the…

In the past, the fishermen of Mafia Island in Tanzania and other stakeholders in the fishing industry considered the flesh of the local whipray, Jenkins’ whipray Himantura jenkinsii, to be of relatively poor quality. Artisanal fisheries therefore did…

Growing up in the Swiss-German-speaking part of Switzerland, you soon understand that learning other languages is key. There are only about five million Swiss-Germans, so from an early age we have to learn other languages. In school we…

Te Pito O Te Henua, or the navel of the world, is the ancient name of Easter Island and it came from the local idea that the island unites the force of the universe with the force of…

In my research on shark personality, I have begun to take an interest in what sharks do best: eat. If individual sharks don’t all behave in the same way, I see no reason why they would all eat…

It was 4:30am when my alarm pierced through my apartment in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. After weeks of meticulous planning, risk assessments, back-and-forth emails with field trip approval officers, today was the day I was finally travelling to…