Unlike the evolutionarily defunct ‘Sid’ from Ice Age, humorously drawn with eyes perched on either side of his head, the bizarrely wide-set eyes of hammerhead sharks serve a very real purpose. They...
Banded sea kraits are amphibious reptiles that hunt in coral reefs. 🐍
Like cobras, their terrestrial relatives, these snakes have fangs that contain a powerful venom!
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These teeny, tiny tentacles belong to the smallest cephalopod in the ocean: the pygmy squid. Living in the warm, sun-dappled waters of the Indo-Pacific, they keep to the shallows among fronds of se...
Some sea snails have an extension of their mantle called a siphon. This tube-like structure serves many important functions as it slowly makes its way across the seafloor. By drawing water in and o...
The eyes of long-spined porcupinefish are quite the sight (pun intended), as with most nocturnal fish. In the shallow coral reefs where they live, the corneal iridescence (or the metallic spa...
The SEA Knowledge Café is a subregional event facilitated by SEA’s Knowledge Lead, Aditi Desai. It is intended to be an informal and collaborative conversation, designed to foster open dialogue and...
Don’t be fooled by this adorable face. The Weddell seal is built for extremes. It undertakes deep foraging dives that plunge 400 to 600 meters beneath the Antarctic ice and can last more than an ho...
In 2011, the entire exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Bahamas was established as a shark sanctuary by the Bahamian government: a conservation step that recognises the critical role that sharks p...
The S-101 standard for Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) offers dynamic features, such as the possibility for more up-to-date data on currents or tides, as well as for the use of multiple languag...
In the waters of the Galápagos, a silky shark, larger than most humans, is utterly dwarfed beside a whale shark. Here, we witness a fascinating interaction: the silky shark rubbing against its gian...