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Blue-spotted Stingray: clearly not a real fish

Blue-spotted Stingray: clearly not a real fish

If you take a look at most images of rays, you will note two things.  They're pretty flat and they're also a little boring in the color department.  Taeniura lymma seems to have rejected the second category and appears to be proud of its vivid blue polka dots.  Here's...

Sharks and Seahorses found in London’s River Thames

Sharks and Seahorses found in London’s River Thames

We are often reminded these days of the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world, with the aquatic world taking something of a pounding as global warming, pollution, and overfishing taking their toll. Whilst it can be very depressing at times, every s0 often, a...

Why we should all care about seagrass

Why we should all care about seagrass

If you've never taken an interest in seagrass, you're missing out.  I'ts biologically fascinating and perhaps more importantly, really, really useful. I've been fascinated by this stuff since first learning about this distant relative of the lily that manages to make...

More Morays

More Morays

Even though I don't get enormously excited by encounters with Moray Eels, I seem to have an awful lot of images of them, so here's a few more species from around the world.  The fish below (and main image) is the Mediterranean Moray (Muraena helena).  This species is...

Moray Encounters

Moray Encounters

In an earlier post I mentioned that divers have a fascination with morays, seemingly getting very excited what we encounter a particularly large one. Personally, as I stated earlier, I'm not always hugely impressed with morays of the 'look at the size of that beast!"...

Coral City Fluorotour

Coral City Fluorotour

We are proud to present Coral City Flourotour, our first short film in 3 years, and our first in-ocean filming project using techniques developed in the CM lab / studio. Coral City Flourotour documents the highly fluorescent corals living near the Coral City Camera site at PortMiami.…

Lionfish in UK waters?

Lionfish in UK waters?

I think all readers of this post are aware of the spread of Lionfish through the waters of the Caribbean and the wider Tropical Western Atlantic, but for the first time a lionfish has been caught in waters off the the UK coastline.  As yet though, no one is sure where...