GRAHAMSTOWN (South Africa)- A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being captured and killed. The recent sighting was only the sixth time a megamouth hadContinue Reading
PORT ROPER (Australia)- Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers and First Nations Yugul Mangi Rangers have discovered a new population of a rare and threatened Speartooth Sharks in the Northern Territory’s Roper River. The Speartooth Shark or Glyphis glyphis is currently listed as Critically Endangered under Australia’s national environmental legislation, with a veryContinue Reading
MOSSEL BAY (South Africa)- A killer whale has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great white shark – and within just two minutes. The new footage shows that orcas do not need to hunt in packs to take down one of the ocean’s most formidable predators. In theContinue Reading
THESSALONIKI (Greece)- The southern Aegean Sea, around the Greek Cyclades and Dodecanese Islands, is potentially a very important area for three species of angel shark species, the Sawback Angelshark (Squatina aculeata), Smoothback Angelshark (S. oculata), and Angelshark (S. squatina). Researchers of iSea have recently discovered several records of angel sharksContinue Reading
LA SAVINA (SPAIN)- The waters of the harbor of the village of La Savina on the Mediterranean island Formentera, were visited by an almost 2m large blue shark this week. One diver entered the cold January waters to try to get a hook out of the mouth of the shark. Continue Reading
OUDDORP (The Netherlands)- The blue shark that was stranded on the Dutch beach at Ouddorp has been successfully released back in the North Sea. A blue shark in the North Sea is quite rare. What the shark was doing in the cold shallow waters off the Dutch coast is notContinue Reading
As the world is in lockdown and isolation because of Covid-19 more and more footage of animals taking over our public space pop up. Wild boars roaming the outskirts of Barcelona, deer running around in the suburbs of London, pumas checking out towns for food in Chile, dolphins spotted inContinue Reading