In 1977, the year the movie Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was released, marine geologists laid eyes on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent for the first time. They were diving inside the submersible, kn

THE CARIBBEAN HAS long been regarded as a diver’s paradise, and for good reason. A sprawling patchwork of islands, spread over a million square miles, they encompass almost every type of underwater ha

IN THE AUGUST ‘25 edition of PFK, I discussed at length one of my favourite oddball fish: the urchin clingfish, scientifically known as Diademichthys lineatus. In said article, I mentioned that althou

W hen a peacock mantis shrimp strikes, it generates the heat of a star. The crustacean retracts a spring-loaded mouthpart known as a dactyl club and puts it on a latch, like a cowboy cocking the hamme

Clouds of noxious gas, stink bombs and purple smokescreens may sound like schoolboy pranks, but the animal world is just as capable of executing arresting chemical warfare, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

The oceans are constantly moving, and water flow is actually even more critical to corals than light. Many corals in the deep oceans survive without any light, gaining all their nutrition from capturi