The Georgia Aquarium has embarked on a legal battle over a  permit denial from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service, known as NOAA Fisheries. The Georgia Aquarium wanted to bring 18 wild Beluga Whales from Northern...
A new species of angler fish was discovered  in the Gulf of Mexico. Three female fish were just found there, and have been named 'Lasiognathus dinem'. Tracey Sutton, a researcher from Nova Southeastern University and Theodore W. Pietsch, from the University of...
An video of two men cutting a whale shark into pieces, while allegedly still alive, is causing Chinese and International horror. Whale sharks are protected animals under Chinese and International Law. These gentile sharks are the biggest fish and shark in the World....
Eight Months after their stay at the New England Aquarium, four sea turtles have been released back into the ocean. The three Kemp's Ridley and one Loggerhead turtle were found stranded on Cape Cod last Fall due to water temperature problems. The turtles were...
The Pacific Northwest's increasingly rising temperatures have been all over the news lately. Global warming or not, its clear that rising temperatures all over the world have been making headlines this summer. And the results are not good for marine and animal life in...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5RNdjoQwGs&w=560&h=315] This post is for all the female aquarists out there. Well actually it could also be for some of you male aquarists out there too, who am I to make a fashion determination. Nail art can get...
This story speaks wonders of the possibility of healing, healing which is occuring in our coral reefs and in human spirituality . Wounded veterans, who have survived what can only be called the impossible, are now working on something that many would agree at times ia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm_p4Dg64HY&w=560&h=315 Only in Florida. Or so it seems. And I preface this article by saying don't try this yourself. But one thing is clear, you certaintly don't see video like this every day. In the quiet town of Destin,...
Let's admit it, we all love Orcas aka Killer Whales.  Well then we should commend a group of brave volunteers who did an amazing job working to save a stranded Orca on July 22nd on the rocks near Hartley Bay, BC Canada.  The whale-loving citizens spent over 6 hours...
This is a very interesting article that raises some very novel questions. Namely, how do you preserve a very rare and already dead basking shark when it washes ashore in Australia? Well it is certainly much easier said than done. I wrote about this shark discovery...