Resting quietly on the sea floor, its elegant body flattened and camouflaged, Aetomylaeus bovinus seems to disappear in the shadows. But as it lifts in the water column, sweeping up its wide pectoral fins, its long tail trailing behind, this graceful member of the eagle ray family is hard to forget. Aetomylaeus bovinus, commonly known …
Aetomylaeus bovinus (the duck-bill eagle ray or bull ray) Read More »
For thousands of years humans have sought immortality, while quietly, deep on the seafloor, an inconspicuous, dime-sized jellyfish may have held the secret all along. Turritopsis dohrnii, popularly known as the immortal jellyfish, was first documented in the Mediterranean in the 1880s. But another 100 years passed before people began to realize that there was …
Loggerheads and Greens are the most common sea turtles in the Mediterranean. Some are visitors from the Atlantic, but the turtles that hatch along Mediterranean shores are from distinct subpopulations. While most nesting occurs in the eastern basin, both visiting and native subpopulations travel and forage throughout the Mediterranean. Loggerheads are the most frequently found …
