Many divers top off a trip to the Southern Red Sea by watching a rotund dugong snuffle through seagrass meadows in about 25 feet (7.6 meters) of water. Others might snorkel beside a bus-sized juvenile...

Sharks first appeared in the fossil record nearly 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or the first trees took root. Today, more than a thousand shark and ray species are known to science, wit...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

“Dangerous, blood thirsty, sharp-toothed apex predator of the sea…” While reading this description, did your mind immediately conjure the image of a shark?  Studies conducted in various parts of the w...

Each year, a mature male loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) undertakes a precise journey between Belize and Honduras, timed not by the calendar but by the courtship season. Thanks to satellite tracki...

On a small island in the Panamanian Caribbean, north of the Gulf of Guna Yala, hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), a species on the verge of extinction, arrive each year to lay their eggs. Mas...

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In coastal waters, mysterious pouches sometimes wash ashore, tangled in seaweed or nestled in rocky tide pools. They’re not trash, nor seaweed pods, but the egg cases of sharks and rays – nature’s ing...

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