T he whale shark is the world’s largest fish and one of the ocean’s most mysterious gentle giants. With their spotted skin ...

Miguel Aguíñiga Rodríguez, Baja California’s Secretary of Tourism, has announced the start of the whale shark observation season, running from June 1 to December 15 in Bahía de los Ángeles. The whale ...

A QUT researcher has observed a rare ocean phenomenon off the coast of Timor-Leste revealing a surprising ally in the fight for coral reef survival: giant, gelatinous plankton known as pyrosomes.

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column.

image: This photograph shows two big and two little Pyrocystis noctiluca.. view more . Credit: Prakash lab / Stanford University. Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to ...