Perhaps not the nudibranch you're used to: this Melibe viridis, filmed in Indonesia, has a rather peculiar mouth. It has an oral veil, an expandable hood used for hunting. Using their veil as a fish net, they scour the seafloor and seagrass blades for small crustaceans.

New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks with Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions.

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Climate change is driving coral reefs beyond their tipping point, pushing these vulnerable systems harder than they can push back. And there's a domino effect - marine species like turtles risk losing their habitat and food sources, swinging life on the reef into imbalance.

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A conservation victory for green sea turtles was announced: a downgrade of the conservation status from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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Found along the seafloor of every ocean in the world, sea urchins are not the simple, stationary pin-cushions that some people believe them to be. They have specialised adaptations which include many tiny tube feet, tentacles, that sprout amongst their sharp spines.

Unblinking eyes, prominent nostrils and a gaping mouth - giant moray eels are not easily missed on reefs. Opening and closing their mouths pumps water across their gills, and their powerful jaws hide a mouth lined with rows of inward-pointing teeth.

On this week's #WoS podcast episode, we journey into the darkness with deep-sea legend Dr @britfinucci. A far from barren landscape, we meet the small-but-ferocious prickly dogfish, the luminous lanternsharks, and the ancient and toothy frilled sharks.

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The oceanic manta ray is listed as Endangered, threatened by pressures such as overfishing and habitat loss. Studying their movements, behaviour, and habitats is vital to understanding how best to protect them, to ensure these giants continue to exist.

🎥: Byron Dilkes

This ragged-tooth shark has a hitchhiker caught between its teeth, but not for long. These sharks possess a conveyor belt of teeth, arranged in rows that steadily shift forward as new ones grow behind them. It’s a brilliant adaptation with a lifetime supply of fresh, razor-sharp replacements.

Lionfish are cunning hunters and even better defenders with their venomous spines. Since being introduced in the Atlantic Ocean, their numbers have boomed. Without natural predators, they have proliferated, feeding on herbivorous fish, which disrupts the balance on coral reefs in these regions.

Weddell seals are creatures of the ice, but don't be fooled by their 'chilled' demeanour - once in the water, these seals are exceptional divers, spending up to 90 minutes below the water!

🎥: Byron Dilkes

The Save Our Seas Foundation is honoured to have joined global leaders, scientists, and conservationists in Abu Dhabi for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, a defining moment for the future of our planet.

🎥: Caiti Allison, Byron Dilkes, Sebastian Staines

In this week's episode of the #WoS podcast, Dr Kelly Kingon talks about her research on one of the ocean’s most distinctive predators: hammerhead sharks.

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Amidst the tranquil scene of shimmering silver bait fish swimming in the sun-warmed surface waters of the ocean, schooling bonito race below, feeding on the ‘bait ball' of small fish. It’s a fish-eat-fish world out there!

🎥: Byron Dilkes

Perhaps more ethereal than any other marine animal, manta rays swoop and glide through our oceans. But they are far more than simply otherworldly, and plankton-swilling. They have the largest brain relative to their body size of any fish in the ocean and are highly intelligent.

🎥: Byron Dilkes