MARINE LIFE

A camera attached to a female loggerhead turtle brings new insights into their secret world. The footage reveals that these turtles are far more social than previously thought and that they do feed during the nesting season.

The team deploys shark cameras to different sections of the Andros Barrier Reef to get an overview of the area. In total, the sharks capture 25 hours of footage, providing a much more detailed look into their world than any diver could achieve.

Eels: ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Actinopterygii Order: | Anguilliformes There are about 800 species of eels that belong to eight suborders, 19 families and 111 genera. Size and Weight: Eels vary in size depending ...

Toola has taught 501 how to be an otter, and now it is time for them to be separated, forever. The aquarium team decides to release 501 back in the wild.

  Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus): slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Chondrichthyes Order: | Orectolobiformes Family: | Rhincodontidae Genus: | Rhincodon Species: | R. typus Whale sharks are the largest known extant fish species. Their name "whale shark" comes ...

Shark: sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Chondrichthyes Subclass: | Elasmobranchii Infraclass: | Euselachii Superorder: | Selachimorpha Fossil records of sharks date back over 400 million years, meaning that sharks have outlived the dinosaurs and many ...

Dolphin: common name of aquatic mammals within the infr-aorder Cetacea. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Cetacea Family: | Delphinidae The scientific order, called Cetacea, includes dolphins, whales and porpoises. The dolphin family Delphinidae has 36 species. Some members of ...

This is the story of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's 501st attempt to save an orphan otter. From her discovery as a stranded newborn pup crying on the beach through her rehabilitation in secret roof tanks atop the Aquarium, NATURE follows as Otter 501 learns how ...

Sea otters cannot even swim on their own when they are born. In the wild, a mother otter takes her pup everywhere to protect and educate her baby.