Marine life
- Opinion
- Shark debate
We have the technology to prevent shark bites. Will we use it?
From drones, to smart drumlines and personal devices that deter attacks, we have better ways to keep swimmers and surfers safer, but we need to deploy them.
- Culum Brown
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A state-first trial was trying to save WA’s prized reefs, until a cyclone threatened months of hard work
Millions of coral eggs and embryos during two separate spawning events – one in Exmouth and the other in Coral Bay – to save the reefs after a mass bleaching event. But Cyclone Narelle threatened to derail the project.
- Holly Thompson
Rare fish believed to be extinct north of Margaret River found in Perth Hills
The Balston’s pygmy perch was long thought to be extinct from the Perth region, but a discovery has found it alive and thriving in the Helena River.
- Indigo Lemay-Conway
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- Marine Rescue NSW
Dog swims almost one kilometre to island off NSW coast
The dog played “hide and seek” with rescuers after it was spotted on a small island off the NSW South Coast.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
The ‘risky’ plan to take 31,000 Olympic swimming pools from beneath WA’s largest river
The state government says the draft plan to increase groundwater extraction is science-based and supportive of both industry and the environment. These experts are not convinced.
- Holly Thompson
- Exclusive
- Animals
The 25-year ocean mystery solved with a nod to Mr Snuffleupagus
Thanks to fate, luck or instinct, an Australian marine scientist made a “rarest of the rare” find. A quarter-century later it became his most extraordinary discovery.
- Angus Dalton
Giant squid among creatures of the deep hiding off WA’s Ningaloo Coast, research reveals
Curtin University researchers have detected a range of marine life near one of WA’s most famous natural attractions – including the elusive and rarely photographed giant squid.
- Holly Thompson
Some people think oysters are just for eating. Those people never met Jill, the family ‘pet’
Oyster farmer Bernie Connell breeds them big. But Jill was special, and a disrupter in her small town.
- Bronte Gossling
Sydney beaches closed over shark risk as dead whale washes ashore
The unknown species of whale washed up onto the rocks at Era beach earlier today.
- Staff reporter
A scientist was scalped by a machine in her lab. Then her own seaweed research helped mend the wound
Marine biologist Pia Winberg has long known the bountiful properties of seaweed, from fertiliser to food and beyond. And after a horrific lab accident, it even helped save her own skin.
- Tim Elliott