Wildlife Meet 5 remarkably old animals, from a Greenland shark to a featherless, seafaring cockatoo …oldest aquarium fish: Granddad the lungfish. Granddad was sent from Australia to Chicago in 1933 and lived in an aquarium until 2017. Our study measured changes in Granddad’s DNA to…
Creatura Blog Spotted garden eels are mean little divas …they let it go to their head, just a touch. Earlier this year, the Sumida Aquarium, which is located in Japan’s Tokyo Skytree tower, announced that its spotted garden eel…
News The underwater channel …Sea”, observes the second-largest aquarium tank in the world, located at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan, for just over four minutes. Sounds simple, but the underwater scene proves to be beautiful…
Australian Geographic: Extreme Aquatic Predators of the World A new addition to the collectable Extreme Animals of the World range of Science and Craft kits. Exploring Extreme Marine and River Predators.
Destinations Yasawa Yomp …aquatic and to laze in hammocks strung up outside beachside bures, and shoes often remain at the bottom of people’s packs for their entire trip. That was never going to…
News With water, we have sharks: 8 shark safety tips …have our intelligence. Some of our sharks have evolved to be extraordinary predators, and, especially in the aquatic environment where humans are quite awkward and alien, we have little defence…
News Supermum lobster first to breed in captivity …major step forward in efforts to establish a lobster aquaculture industry. AIMS principal researcher Dr Mike Hall says successfully breeding with captive-raised lobsters had proved impossible in the past and…
Creatura Blog Springtails are kinda cute? …(And it’s not the only one.) Perhaps the cutest springtails are the water springtails. Here’s a photo of two different species, (Sminthurides aquaticus) and (Podura aquatica), hanging out together near…
News Things that go buzz in the night …specifically caught moving insects. These include pitfall traps (for crawling insects), flight interception traps (for flying insects) and aquatic drift nets (for swimming insects). Related: Ladybirds, every child’s favourite bug…
News Once-extinct 'zombie fish' are back for a wild time …SEA LIFE aquarium, was declared a success after the first eggs hatched on New Year’s Day. Nine months on, breeders released the fish into McLartys Lagoon, a natural wetland on the…