Sea cucumbers are a common oddity in the ocean’s sandy bottom. While they look like a dead dark sausage, they’re actually live animals. They’re even harvested for their skin and muscles to China. Alaskan sea cucumbers are also apparently more nutritionally interesting than their chinese counterparts. Sea cucumbers reproduce releasing sperm and ova in the [...]

Underwater photos on sunset ? pretty strange combination huh . But, vazum@flickr manage to take this shot .. stingray on sunset

Scientists in Shoal Creek, Tennessee ,  just found new species: the Giant “Beard” Crayfish (Barbicambarus simmonsi ). The creature is almost 5 inches long, almost twice the size of typical crayfish found in the area. The new species is described in a paper in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. via NG

New species of crustacean discovered by some researchers at the Spanish Intitute of Oceanography. Found In The El Cachucho Marine Protected Area , Politolana sanchezi measures about two centimeters and lives in soft bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay and western Galicia, between 480 and 829 meters depth. source

Study from Nathan Scott Hart and his colleagues found that sharks are actually color blind animals. They examined retina of 17 shark species and discovered that sharks only has one type of colour-sensitive cell, known as a cone cell, in their eyes whereas human eyes have three cone cell types, with each type dedicated to [...]

Mission Blue is global partnership initiative that its mission is to inspire people to restore health and production to the ocean . This partnership will promote the expansion of proven, replicable, and scalable solutions, as well as new, cutting-edge ideas from fisheries policymakers, the seafood industry, and local fishing/coastal communities. You can also participate in [...]

Finally , launched.. SearchFish is a tool to help you find information about a fish species. We gather our data from various sources mainly from Fishbase and Google, GBIF. We’ll keep adding new related sources to improve the data. and it’s still in BETA .. so your input are welcome Have a nice surf, Thanks