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

Anchored in a quiet loch on the west coast of Scotland, Katherine Knight discovered the seabed was barren mud. She raised a small community and set out to replant the underwater desert with life-giving seagrass

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

FOR Lawson Wood, the sea has been an obsession that’s lasted a lifetime. It started as a boy, peering into the rockpools around Eyemouth and being endlessly fascinated by the ever-changing variety of

This week’s dream: the dazzling coral gardens of ...

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