The frilled shark

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c

The ichthyosaur fossil was discovered in 2001, but ...

Our historian Keith looks back 58 years to the tale of an intrepid sea angler who targeted big sharks from the shore

With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed–it can swim faster than a battleship–the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion

Conjure in your mind a giant, deep-sea predator, and I bet there’s a colossal squid lurking in there, perhaps with an even bigger sperm whale chasing after it. But there are plenty of other enormous h

During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of