Blue and fin whales are interbreeding

WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

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-

LONDON’S Hammersmith Hospital was the unlikely location that sparked Natalie Sanders’ passion for marine mammals. “I have a heart condition and spent a lot of time there as a child,” she says. “A tunn

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

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

Long believed to be a symbol of good fortune, the albatross has its own annual world awareness day on 19th June. As legend would have it, the bird embodies the souls of sailors lost at sea, and to har