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The smart drumline trial will finish next week.

Australia second for shark bites as numbers fall worldwide

Worldwide, 47 people were bitten last year in unprovoked incidents, seven of them fatally.

  • Erin Blakemore

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Jaun-Paul Kalman was rushed to hospital on February 5 after a blue-ring octopus bit him on the thumb at Balmoral.

1000 times worse than cyanide: Blue-ringed octopus bite can turn deadly, quickly

A man bitten in Mosman said he felt himself stop breathing. He was hit with so much venom he suffered another three bouts of paralysis in the week that followed.

  • Angus Dalton
False killer whales stranded in Tasmania.

‘Tough decision’ to euthanise 90 surviving stranded whales

Challenging surf conditions forced rescuers to abandon their efforts to save a pod of 157 stranded false killer whales.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Ningaloo bleaching February 2025.

‘Like an underwater bushfire:’ Shocking images as heatwave bleaches Ningaloo

Advocates are calling this a “red alert” moment for the usually resilient reef, as a marine heatwave already linked to a fish kill and cyclone intensification moves south.

  • Emma Young
A blue groper in Clovelly, Sydney, in December 2023.

Sydney’s beloved blue gropers are disappearing. Can we slow their demise?

It’s the state fish of NSW, yet its population has been halved in Greater Sydney and the Mid North Coast over the past 12 years.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A humpback whale surfaces while lunge feeding on menhaden, a small fish, in the Atlantic. Scientists have discovered a new anatomical structure that allows lunge-feeding whales to take in massive amounts of water without choking.

‘Slimy, wet and rough’: What it’s like inside a whale’s mouth

A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being swallowed.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Whale swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia

A father has captured on camera the terrifying moment his son was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off Chile.

The Reef Design Lab structure as it will look at the MPavilion.

The underwater ‘gardens’ helping rehabilitate marine environments

These submersible structures are already aiding conservation efforts around the world, from Gibraltar to Singapore.

  • Megan Backhouse
A whale shark that popped up beside a boat off the coast of Bermagui.

The water is so warm, even whale sharks are heading south for summer

The ocean giants are commonly seen at Ningaloo Reef in WA. Astonishingly, one turned up on the NSW coast.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Bull sharks enjoying warm waters at Spit West Reserve over the weekend.

Warmer Sydney waters mean longer shark season

Climate change is raising sea temperatures and making conditions more hospitable to bull sharks and tiger sharks.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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