Loch ness monster

WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

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

The juvenile colossal squid was filmed near the ...

In mid-June 1892, several hundred Orcadians tried and happily failed to kill a mermaid. The story behind this extraordinary episode (see FT368:54-55) is quickly told. A strange marine creature had, fo

Mars once had vast oceans on its surface. Then its magnetic field weakened, its atmosphere thinned, and its water vanished. But the numbers don’t add up. For the Red Planet to have transformed from a

Dick Waters recalls moments that make the hairs stand on the back of your neck