Biologist taking skin sample from a whale shark to determine what plankton types the animal has been feeding on, Yum Balam Marine Protected Area, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America

AI generated image of a Robot studying swarm of shrimps in a deep sea canyon with hydrothermal vents

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Tourist hand-feeding magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), at feeding station, Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, Belize

Adult humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching along the west side of Chatham Strait in Alaska, United States of America

A long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis), surfacing off Gorda Banks, Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America

Scientists use hydrophone to track tagged great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) behaviour, Gaansbai, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa

Scientist uses hydrophone to track tagged great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) behaviour in real time, Gaansbaai, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa

Research scientist Lori Davis holds hammerhead shark pup (Sphyrna lewini), Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific

Research scientist taking hook off hammerhead shark pup (Sphyrna lewini), Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific

Scientists and graduate student collecting hammerhead shark pups for research, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific

Graduate student dissects hammerhead shark pup (Sphyrna lewini), Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific

Bapor Kibra, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles