The Republic of the Marshall Islands has announced that it is to implement protection for two of the country’s remote and northernmost isles – a pair of uninhabited atolls known as Bikar and Bokak.

A new Guinness World Record for underwater living has been German aerospace engineer Rüdiger ‘Rudy’ Koch, after he completed an extraordinary 120-day stretch beneath the waves. Koch and his team ...

A baby shark born in a US aquarium appears to be a rare case of parthenogenesis, in which a female animal reproduces without having mated with a male. The swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) pup ...

The worst of the British storm season is usually during autumn and winter, which coincides with pupping season for the islands’ seal populations. Even the hardiest of adult seals can be seriously ...