Astronaut’s Underwater Q&A

Nicole Stott – former NASA astronaut, aquanaut, and spacewalker – visited the Horniman Museum and Gardens last week, to meet students from local schools during a Space for a Better World careers day, and to mark Earth...

Why Do Fish Sleep in Strange Places?

Raise your hand if you’ve ever turned on your tank lights in the morning only to find one of your fish stone dead. Now raise the other hand if the “deceased” was magically resurrected within five minutes, swimming around and begging for food as if it didn’t just...

Seantience

Seantience isn’t a documentary about the beauty of the ocean or the climate crisis. It’s a documentary that raises questions we rarely ask ourselves: Do the planet’s most neglected animals have complex inner...

Monday Archives: A Fish with Clear Blood

Every vertebrate has hemoglobin that makes the blood red…not true.  A harmless, odd-looking fish that is found most commonly at depths of 200 – 400 m is an anomaly! The Ocellated Icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus) lives in the icy waters from the South...