Armed with a spear and an underwater camera, Nate Sorensen has made hunting invasive lionfish a social media hit. His viral videos document a growing effort to combat a predator threatening Florida’s coral reefs — one fish at a time. #calltoearth
ABC News' Danny New has the story of a humpback whale that's swimming dozens of miles from the Pacific Ocean.
A tiny two-headed diamondback terrapin, weighing just 5.2 grams, turned up at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and is now under veterinary watch at a Cape Cod wildlife center. The Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable shared a photo of the bicephalic hatchling on Facebook Thursday, drawing immediate attention to what the center called […] The post Two-headed turtle hatchling discovered at Cape Cod nesting site appeared first on American Almanac .
A tiny two-headed diamondback terrapin, weighing just 5.2 grams, turned up at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and is now under veterinary watch at a Cape Cod wildlife center. The Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable shared a photo of the bicephalic hatchling on Facebook Thursday, drawing immediate attention to what the center called an uncommon but not unprecedented find. The baby terrapin has two fully formed heads and, according to the veterinary team, both sides appear healthy and functional so far. Diamondback terrapins are classified as a threatened species in Massachusetts, which makes the discovery at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet, a small town on the outer arm of Cape Cod, all the more notable for the…Open
Scientists discovered egg-laden Antarctic krill thriving nearly 3,600 feet below the surface at hydrothermal vents, a finding that upends long-held assumptions about one of the ocean's most important creatures. A research team operating a remotely piloted submarine off the Antarctic Peninsula in late 2024 spotted the tiny crustaceans drifting through superheated water near a volcanic […] The post Antarctic krill found at deep-sea volcanic vents for the first time, raising new questions about ocean life appeared first on American Almanac .
Scientists discovered egg-laden Antarctic krill thriving nearly 3,600 feet below the surface at hydrothermal vents, a finding that upends long-held assumptions about one of the ocean's most important creatures. A research team operating a remotely piloted submarine off the Antarctic Peninsula in late 2024 spotted the tiny crustaceans drifting through superheated water near a volcanic vent on the seafloor, a place no one expected to find them. The four krill collected were all reproductive females, packed with eggs and apparently feeding on microbes unique to the vent site. The discovery, published in the journal Communications Biology, marks the first confirmed observation of Antarctic krill at a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. The finding…Open
Emergency services are responding to a suspected fatal shark attack off a beach in the Australian west coast city of Perth
Red tide harms marine wildlife and causes respiratory irritation in humans
A team of volunteer divers has located and photographed roughly 25 flint-built features on the seabed off Norfolk, England, remnants of a medieval settlement called Shipden that the North Sea consumed more than 700 years ago. The divers, members of the Anglian branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club, launched from the coastal village of Sea […] The post Volunteer divers photograph 25 man-made structures at site of medieval English town swallowed by the North Sea appeared first on American Almanac .
A team of volunteer divers has located and photographed roughly 25 flint-built features on the seabed off Norfolk, England, remnants of a medieval settlement called Shipden that the North Sea consumed more than 700 years ago. The divers, members of the Anglian branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club, launched from the coastal village of Sea Palling and traveled along the shore to Cromer, where they found the structures sitting several hundred metres from the beach. Clear skies and unusually still water exposed the chalk and sand of the seabed, giving the team a rare window to document what lies beneath one of England's most eroded coastlines. What they found challenges a local legend that has persisted for more than a century, and opens new…Open
In the turquoise waters of Mo'orea, French Polynesia, Coral Gardeners are growing thousands of corals in underwater nurseries before planting them back onto damaged reefs, as part of the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. CNN's Bijan Hosseini dives in to see how it works. #calltoearth #perpetualplanetinitiative
Nine bottlenose dolphins remain locked inside a shuttered Mexican water park where campaigners say the animals are blind, sick, and gnawing at concrete walls, and government officials insist the dolphins are fine. Footage filmed September 2 at Dolphin Discovery Ventura Park in Cancun shows the animals confined in algae-ridden enclosures months after the park announced […] The post Nine dolphins left confined in closed Cancun water park as health reports reveal organ failure and disease appeared first on American Almanac .
Nine bottlenose dolphins remain locked inside a shuttered Mexican water park where campaigners say the animals are blind, sick, and gnawing at concrete walls, and government officials insist the dolphins are fine. Footage filmed September 2 at Dolphin Discovery Ventura Park in Cancun shows the animals confined in algae-ridden enclosures months after the park announced its indefinite closure in January 2025. The animal rights group Veeleaf captured the video, and campaigners from the organization TideBreakers posted it to Facebook, calling it among the worst conditions their team had ever documented for captive dolphins. The park once offered swim-with-dolphins experiences for tourists. Now no tourists come. The gates are shut. But the…Open
The war with Iran has sent diesel fuel prices soaring at a time when warming waters mean lobstermen are traveling further offshore to look for lobster.