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a leopad seal with its mouth wide open
Environment

15 riveting images from the 2025 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition

By Popular Science Team

Hammerhead shark in water
Environment

Osprey drops hammerhead shark onto disc golf field

By Andrew Paul

A female oceanic whitetip shark seen feeding on the carcass.
Environment

Sharks surprise scientists by sharing a meal

By Laura Baisas

Mako shark swimming with orange octopus on its back
Environment

Shark’s ‘mystery hat’ turns out to be a giant octopus

By Andrew Paul

Close up of lemon shark
Environment

Megalodon may have been ‘even longer’ than we thought

By Andrew Paul

a cuttlefish swimming in the ocean
Environment

Cuttlefish ink can help keep sharks away from humans

By Laura Baisas

Killer whale breaching water with oceans and birds behind it
Environment

Killer whales murder great white sharks for their livers

By Andrew Paul

a baby swell shark swimming in a tank
Environment

Aquarium surprised by shark born in a tank without males

By Laura Baisas

a penguin swimming underwater in straight line making it look like it's flying
Environment

15 splashy and stunning underwater wildlife images

By Popular Science Team

a long whale shark with gray spots swims in the ocean
Environment

Whale shark pre-mating ritual observed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Chaunacops fish with 2024 Look Back article headline
Science

Ghost ships to ghost sharks: 10 wildest underwater discoveries of 2024

By Andrew Paul

a bird opens it mouth to eat a bug.
Environment

9 fascinating images from the Royal Society Publishing Photography Prize

By Popular Science Team

a spook-fish with a narrow snout and large pectoral fins
Environment

Boo! New species of ghost shark uncovered in New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

a pregnant porbeagle shark swims under water with two tags. one is on her dorsal fin and the other is on her back
Environment

Who ate the pregnant porbeagle shark?

By Laura Baisas

Port Jackson sharks sleeping on the seafloor at Beagle Marine Park.
Environment

Watch a huge ‘No Boys Allowed’ shark slumber party

By Laura Baisas

Wound care and amputation in a Camponotus maculatus ant.
Science

Ants perform teeny tiny operations to save their injured comrades

By Popular Science Team

Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching ocean in an attack.
Environment

Sharks are testing positive for cocaine

By Andrew Paul

an illustration of a large shark jumping out of the water and eating a winged dinosaur
Animals

When the ocean got hot, the sharks bulked up

By Laura Baisas

Shark Embryos
Environment

Scientists built an artificial shark uterus

By Claudia Geib / Hakai Magazine

Hammerhead shark
Environment

A scientific mission to save the sharks

By Angela Posada-Swafford / Knowable Magazine