—Photograph by Stefan Lovgren
April 29, 2008—Recreational fishers and biologist Zeb Hogan (wearing cap) hold a live, 14-foot-long (4.3-meter-long) giant freshwater stingray the fishers caught in the Bang Pakong River in Chachoengsao, Thailand, on March 31, 2008.
After weeks of combing remote Southeast Asian rivers for giant freshwater stingrays—possibly the largest freshwater fish in the world—Hogan finally […]

In a sight never previously witnessed an orangutan uses a sharpened stick to try and spear fish.

In pictures: Orangutans go fishing
The hugely powerful creature uses fingers and toes to anchor himself on the branches of a tree overhanging the water.

The orangutan used a fishermen’s poles to try and spear the fish but didn’t quite have […]

A recently discovered fish crawling in Indonesian waters in this undated photo. A University of Washington professor says the fish that crawls instead of swims and has forward-looking eyes like human could be part of an entirely unknown family of fishes. The creature sighted in Indonesian waters off Ambon Island has tan-and-peach-coloured zebra-striping. […]

Sea spiders the size of dinner plates, giant worms and jelly fish with 18 ft-long tentacles have been discovered by a scientific expedition exploring the largely unknown waters of Antarctica.

Man’s effect on world’s oceans revealed
Antarctic seabed ecosystems invasion threat
Acidic oceans threaten marine life
The bizarre menagerie - many of the creatures are new to science - […]

Blue Whale
Blue whales are the largest mammals, and possibly the largest animal of any kind to have lived on Earth. A 33-metre long, 190-tonne whale has been seen, but most are smaller than this.
Blues were hunted to the brink of extinction during the 20th Century, before being protected in the mid-1960s. The most recent abundance […]

 
SEOUL (AFP) — Police have broken an illegal whale poaching racket, confiscating more than 50 tonnes of Minke meat in the largest seizure of its kind in South Korea, an official said Saturday.
Police said they had raided two warehouses in the southeastern port of Ulsan where the refrigerated meat from some 60 Minke whales was […]

Last time Earth suffered a carbon-induced fever, it was the oceans that helped saved the day, say marine scientists in California.Massive ocean-bottom accumulations of the mineral barite show that the last severe global warming episode 55 million years ago was accompanied by several thousands of years of ocean plant life kicking into high gear. All […]

A 20 second video of a playful seal playing around with a diver.

A man, surnamed Yan, sought police help last week after his car was seriously damaged by a turtle falling from an eight-floor building in Haikou, capital of Hainan Province.
Yan parked his car in a residential area but when he returned he found the sunroof was broken and a turtle was inside the car.
The turtle was […]

Horizon International has launched its Magic Porthole coral reef playing cards with photographic mirror-images of coral reef creatures.
Each of the 52 card backs features a design with five creatures of the reef: grouper, boxing crab, clownfish, emperor fish, and moray eel. They’re artistically rendered by Sasha Meret. These “First Collector’s Edition” cards also feature photographs […]