Oceanography
The super-speed camera records the mantis shrimp's punch as fast as a bullet
Mantis shrimps are famous for possessing club-like claws that can deliver fatal blows to everything from hard-shelled prey to the thick glass of an aquarium.
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The octopus sacrifices its arm to escape the eel
Videos shot by divers reveal that octopuses can cover their gills, blind their eyes or even sacrifice their arms in an effort to deal with calendar fish many times large…
Oceanography
For the first time in history, fish in the sea 1,000 meters deep washed ashore
For the first time in history, a fish living thousands of meters below the sea floor washed ashore at Cannon Beach, Oregon (USA) last weekend.
Oceanography
Decode thousands of mysterious craters on the California seabed
Thanks to underwater robots, researchers discovered more than 5,000 craters on the seafloor off the coast of California that were not caused by leaking methane gas.
Oceanography
The scientist communicated with the whale for 20 minutes
Scientists from the SETI Institute, the University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation made the breakthrough when they had a 20-minute conversation with…
Oceanography
Giant clams live hundreds of years
A quahog ocean clam born around 1499 is the oldest individual ever discovered, demonstrating the species' ability to live a long life.
Oceanography
The world's largest coastal regeneration project
The Dubai Mangroves project will cover Dubai's coastal area with giant mangrove forests to prevent erosion, flooding and reduce CO2 emissions.
Oceanography
The grave of nuclear waste under the sea costs 83 billion USD
A giant undersea grave planned to store Britain's growing amount of radioactive waste will become the country's most expensive and lengthy major infrastructure project.
Oceanography
Air-powered electricity storage system at 700m deep seabed
BaroMar's system uses excess electricity to compress and direct air to tanks on the seabed, storing it there until needed.
Oceanography
The strange fish can swallow prey 10 times heavier than itself
Black swallower fish live at depths of 700 - 3,000 m in the sea with a wide mouth, large abdomen and teeth like barbed traps that prevent prey from escaping.
Oceanography
The first group of animals on Earth to glow
Bioluminescence, the ability of organisms to produce light through chemical reactions, may have appeared 540 million years ago in deep-sea corals.
Oceanography
What Are Coral Reefs and How Do They Form?
Coral reefs are biological structures built mainly by colonies of tiny coral animals that secrete calcium carbonate skeletons. Over many generations, those skeletons acc…
Oceanography
The man caught a giant oarfish that was 6m long and weighed 130kg
It took the man 40 minutes of struggling to pull the giant oarfish, 6m long and weighing 130kg, to shore.
Oceanography
New discoveries about mysterious predatory fish in the ocean
Sharks sleep so silently and slowly deep in the ocean that they are given this nickname.
Oceanography
The fisherman caught a shrimp that looked like an alien creature, and when he heard the expert's analysis, his face immediately turned pale
The fisherman looked closer and discovered that these animals looked similar to alien creatures.