The ocean is vast and on average about 4,000 metres deep. It contains 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of water – that’s 97% of all the water on the surface of the Earth. [1] Home to over 240,000 known ...
Fancy a dip? Everything We've Ever Known About... The Sea drowns you in an ocean of facts in just under four minutes, so roll your trouser legs up and come on in, the water’s lovely ...
It may look like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the Ocean sunfish (also known as the mola) is an actual creature! These massive beasts can be found in both temperate and tropical oceans ...
John Long is a palaeontologist who has studied in depth the 450-million-year history of sharks. When Professor Long joined ABC Conversations he schooled Richard Fidler on some impressive facts about ...
The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...
Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...