Marine Animals
Scientists collect tiny creatures 2,000 metres below ocean’s surface. What they find surprises them
Tiny limpet larvae may hold the key to hydrothermal vent ecosystem formation
“Something I’d never even heard rumours of." Sea turtle emerges from water with strange creature clinging to its back
Remoras – also known as suckerfish – attach themselves to marine animals to hitch a ride, but seeing them holding on tight while out of the water is rare.
"It starts to spin in the water just before emerging head first and leaping up to 3m into the air, rotating continuously"
Famous for their spectacular spinning leaps, spinner dolphins are among the ocean's most acrobatic mammals. Discover where they live, what they eat, why they spin through the air and the threats these charismatic dolphins face.
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Swirling barracuda 'tornado' caught on camera off Indonesian island
Dive guide films mesmerising school of barracuda several metres high while exploring the waters around Maratua Island, Indonesia.
Epic footage shows the "largest great hammerhead ever filmed in the Bahamas"
The four-metre great hammerhead shark was caught on camera in 2025.
"You may experience headaches, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, irregular heartbeat, and fluid on the lungs…" 10 deadliest animals in the Atlantic Ocean
From the extremely venomous fish to huge predatory sharks, these are some of the most dangerous animals in the Atlantic Ocean
It looks like a bundled-up sheet of bubble wrap or a weird ball of jelly bubbles and often washes up on beaches – but what on earth is it?
He thought he was just filming a strange sea creature – BUT then it did something completely unexpected…
Photographer Ian Haggerty stumbled across the bizarre-looking sea cucumber while exploring a reef.
Inside the incredible underwater cities, filled with apartment blocks, that stretch along a massive 150km of coastline
These snails stay in one spot for life and build tiny apartments that support lots of other sea creatures
"It oozes gross, sticky mucus that paralyses prey before sucking it back in…" A bizarre predator that's as long as a sperm whale, but as thin as tagliatelle
Bootlace worms are around as wide as a piece of tagliatelle but are said to grow longer than a blue whale
Deep-sea scientists filmed something hugely astonishing and very rarely seen gliding over the seafloor in Chile
Extraordinary footage of a mother squid carrying her eggs
"it wraps its arms around the victim, grips tight with its thousands of tiny tube feet and pulls hard. Next it forces one of its stomachs out of its mouth…"
The common starfish has two stomachs – and it forces one of them out of its mouth to consume prey.
“To rip off the tail only took a minute…" Insane, gobsmacking drone footage captures gigantic shark eating another shark in Florida
A photographer was astounded when her drone captured the moment a huge hammerhead pounced on a reef shark.
When marine scientists found a plastic bottle floating in the ocean, they were shocked to see this large creature living inside, unable to escape…
Marine scientists were shocked to find a large live crab stuck inside a small plastic bottle. This is how it got there
"The male torpedoed into it and it exploded into smithereens…" Ocean's deadliest predator filmed 'head butting' massive fish so hard it explodes
The unprecedented behaviour could be for food or fun, say experts.
Researchers tag 42 sleeping giants in Arctic Circle – and make breathtaking discovery
Scientists wanted to find out why sperm whales sometimes release bubbles while they snooze – this is what they found.
Scientists tied plastic bottles to fishing nets – and couldn't believe what happened next…
Hundreds of dolphins die in fishing nets every year. How adding this one thing to nets s could help save them
Why crabs walk sideways instead of forwards – and the answer is stranger than you think
Marine biologist Matt Slater explains why walking sideways is the fastest option for crabs
Massive iceberg hits Antarctic island. Here's what happened to the penguins that live there
The grounding of a huge iceberg in Antarctica coincided with a major reduction in the breeding success of a nearby emperor penguin colony – and a new study suggests the two events are linked.
They sound like spaceships! Polar researchers capture otherworldly footage of seal mum and pup beneath the ice
Researchers in Antarctica have shared a charming video of a Weddell seal teaching her new pup to swim under the ice.
Scientists sunk a cow into the South China Sea. Then a gigantic animal appeared
The enormous deep-sea creature, which can grow up to seven metres in length, had never been filmed in this part of the world before.
This deep-sea creature looks like a crocodile, is named after a whale and appears bright scarlet
This deep-sea creature has several different forms, each one so different from the next that scientists thought they were three separate families
Watch ingenious car drive through millions of migrating red crabs on Christmas Island – without injuring any…
The amazing video shows off wildlife photographer Chris Bray’s clever device for saving crabs from being crushed on the Australian island.
It can be as long as a double decker bus, move as fast as 24kmph and as graceful as a dancer…
Learn about the largest rays in the world with our essential guide to manta rays, including how to identify, how manta rays feed and where they live in the wild.
