Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Look at the huge ocean. Miles and miles of water. We can't live without water. Nothing can live without water. These animals live in the water. They couldn't survive unless there was a lot of ...

such as the chilly winds of Antarctica or hot springs found on the ocean floor. BBC Bitesize takes a look at four animals who live in the wildest of environments and just how on earth they do it.

But typically the consumption of plastic just leads to chronic, unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia.

Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and whistles. They are very intelligent because they have to work together to ...

One member of this effort is Tierney Thys who is using new high-tech tracking devices to chart the travel habits of the animals, once widely believed to live primarily in the open ocean.

Sensors attached to animals gather valuable data to track and mitigate the human influence on marine life. The review paper emphasizes the importance of integrating data from various sources and ...

There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem strange to us on land. Giant isopods can live 500 metres or more below the ocean surface. But these 14-legged goliaths are relatives of the ...

Some of the planet's bioluminescent animals live in the deep ocean (although not all of them). Many exist in the twilight zone, the part of the ocean from 500 to 1,000 metres deep, which is always ...

Others, such as choanoflagellates, which are animals' closest living unicellular ... "They could be fundamental to how the protists live and grow in the ocean," she says. Unlike the human ...

More information: Takashi Iwata et al, Biologging as a potential platform for resolving ocean environmental issues and threats: Towards the development of the Internet of Animals, Water Biology ...