Ocean News

The Save Our Seas Foundation and the Museum of Natural History of Geneva join forces for oceans. We are proud to announce our partnership with the Museum of Natural History of Geneva in celebrating the museum’s 200th birthday in 2020. In a spectacular show, the museum has welcomed three main…

Our aim for this particular day was to catch lemon sharks larger than 1.2m for a visiting scientist, Evan Byrnes, who is using respirometry to study metabolic rate in sub-adult lemon sharks. We started the day slowly baking…

Understanding the movement of sharks is an important component of optimising conservation and management strategies. However, this information can be difficult to obtain for sharks that occur at depth. The common sawshark (Pristiophorus cirratus) is small, benthic shark…

When I first learned about the Bimini Sharklab, I read through all of the lab’s research and was fascinated by everything. As I looked through different labs and scientists within the shark research world, there seemed to be…

Few sharks in the world are as well understood as the juvenile lemon shark, and that is in large part thanks to the extensive work done by Dr Samuel Gruber and the Bimini Biological Field Station on the…

Do sharks get cancer? Why are nudibranchs so colourful? What are the most ancient living shark species? And why are sharks so important? Find out in this episode of The Whole Tooth with Isla Hodgson! Video edited by…

You’d be surprised how difficult it is to find devil rays with the naked eye—even when they gather in the hundreds and thousands. But with a drone, that mission becomes a whole lot easier. While we were in…

The coronavirus is having a huge impact on people all around the globe, and the Manta Trust is no exception. Our Maldivian Manta Ray Project and affiliate projects in over twenty countries around the world have put their…

Threatened shark species still make up most of the international shark fin trade A new genetics study published in Nature by Diego Cardeñosa has highlighted that endangered shark species continue to make up a major portion of the international trade for their fins. For the first time, the species found…

This year we are celebrating the first-ever World Manta Day – a full day to raise awareness for and show appreciation of these gloriously mysterious creatures. Save Our Seas Foundation couldn’t be more excited to join our partners at Manta Trust in the celebration of our flappy friends! ‘Manta‘ means…

How is COVID-19 Affecting Manta & Devil Ray Projects Around the World? Part 2. Over the last few months, Manta Trust CEO Dr Guy Stevens and I have also been catching up (via Skype) with our affiliate Project…

Conservation research is failing sawfishes if its outcomes are never communicated to those with the power to take action to protect sawfishes.   A scientific paper by Alifa Haque, Aparna Riti Biswas, and myself has been published today (Publish, then perish? Five years on sawfish are still at risk in…