The lungfish

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

Far from the shore, out in the vast expanses of the open seas lives a group of unusual animals, collectively known as ‘neuston’. Their home is the giant, two-dimensional skin of the sea, which forms a

In the dark waters of the deep sea, lurk many curious and enigmatic animals that few have seen. Frilled sharks (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), for instance, have been known about for more than a century

Walruses live in the arctic and sub-Arctic. They are one of the largest pinnipeds (meaning fin-footed) and are related to seals and sealions. Their Latin name, Odobenus rosmarus, translates as ‘tooth-