Townsville's Reef HQ aquarium has made an unusual discovery, finding three marine creatures called nudibranchs in Ross Creek. Reef HQ guide Joanna Curtis says the species, often referred to as ...

Picture yourself sinking, slowly, beneath the waves. As you fall, the Sun becomes smaller, and dimmer, and dimmer still. The cold waters crush in around you as the pressure increases. Now you're in ...

From an ecological perspective, our oceans are as special as our land. Seawater makes up more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Oceans teem with an enormous variety of animal groups poorly known ...

From an ecological perspective, our oceans are as special as our land. Seawater makes up more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Oceans teem with an enormous variety of animal groups poorly known to ...

The little whirlpools among the logs under the float house caught my eye. I was amazed to find tiny egg casings swimming in circles around a brilliantly white nudibranch with a yellow “mane.” There ...

Q. I enjoy learning about bizarre animals like the terrestrial one you recently wrote about called a hammerhead worm. With all the strange animals found on land, the oceans must be full of even more ...

At the end of the semester in the advanced invertebrate zoology course I took, my rather dry, boring professor made the only joke I remember him ever uttering. We had just finished the phylum ...