Featherstars – Suprisingly Mobile Animals
I just shared a post featuring basket stars, so I thought I’d share some images of their relatives, the featherstars, from a few locations round the world.…... Read more.
Amazing Basket Stars
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a diver come across their first basket star. I was in the southern Red Sea on a night dive on a shallow off-shore reef. ... Read more.
Anemone Thila – Possibly the World’s Best Anemone Gathering
Continuing in my theme of reassessing my image bank, I came across these beauties again and thought they’d be worth sharing once more.…... Read more.
The best of Cozumel
I’ve been revisiting some of my underwater shoots and completing the usual tidying up and deletion of images that are just not worth keeping: it’s easy to fill... Read more.
Rare footage of as yet un-named fish from the Atacama Trench
The Atacama Trench is one of the deepest places on earth. An international team has discovered and captured video of possibly three new species of snailfish according... Read more.
It’s Always Christmas Underwater
I think most everyday folk have a very limited concept of what worms are. In the UK they’re the unattractive, albeit useful, crawly things that starlings spend... Read more.
What came first the beak or the shell?
New fossil evidence shows that at least one early turtle relative evolved their characteristic beaks before their shells, according to a report in Nature.…... Read more.
Rise of the robots – meet RangerBot, an underwater robot able to defeat Crown of thorns starfish
Crown of thorns starfish alone might not represent an existential threat to the Great Barrier Reef, but given the damage done by storms, local damage from development,... Read more.
Alcyonium digitatum – the UK’s Most Common Coral
Whenever you see ‘digitatum’ in a binomial you can be assured that something about the organism can be described as finger-like, and sure enough that’s the... Read more.
Corals Work Together to Eat Jellyfish – Who Knew?
I came across this piece of research news in my news feed a few days back. It seems some species of coral actively team up to capture jellyfish prey.…... Read more.