These animals meet the characteristics of all mammals – they breathe air through lungs, are warm-blooded, have hair (at some point during life), and produce milk to nurse their young – while also living most or all of their lives in or very near the ocean. Dive with us into the fascinating underwater world of marine mammals, and read about how they live and thrive in a completely different environment from conventional mammals.

At the far end of visibility along the reef wall, an unmistakable triangular silhouette with a bright white underbelly appeared – a tiger shark rising confidently towards me. This is one of their known favourite hunting techniques. The four-metre shark kept coming, until eventually it was within arm’s reach, and bumped against the dome port of my camera.

Text and images by Boogs Rosales It can be argued that the title for best dive destination in the Eastern Pacific is shared by three...

These animals make up a very large group in the Arthropoda phylum and most of them are found in freshwater and marine environments throughout...

This class of molluscs is the most intelligent and mobile, and displays a remarkable diversity in size and adaptations for predation, locomotion, camou􀆪age and...