In a rare successful rescue, a 600-pound sea turtle was hauled back into the ocean after it washed up on a Cape Cod beach, a spokesman for the New England Aquarium said Monday.

A team of Geoscience Australia explorers have discovered a previously uncharted coral reef in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the north Queensland coast. Scientists made the find while researching the movement of sand from rivers entering the Gulf.

Divers are being called upon to help save the critically endangered grey nurse shark from extinction by partaking in volunteer surveys of its population in southeast Queensland. This invaluable project is piloted by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) and supported by Sea World, Underwater World and the Queensland Museum.

AN endangered penguin colony is being declared a critical habitat by the New South Wales government - ensuring hefty fines for anyone who disturbs it.

The Federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Dr David Kemp, today announced the Commonwealth Recovery Plan for the threatened Grey Nurse Shark.

The State's peak environment group today condemned the NSW Government's recovery plan for the critically endangered grey nurse shark, saying the Fisheries Department would be an idle spectator at an oncoming extinction.

The NSW Fisheries' director, Steve Dunn, has rejected claims that a draft recovery plan for the grey nurse shark is tokenistic.

Anglers may soon have better luck in bringing home a catch, with the NSW government banning commercial fishing in 29 sites along the state's coastline.

It's the world's largest inland sea, with a total area of almost 150,000 square miles. Countless fish call it home, thousands of seals, and all these creatures face an uncertain future now thanks to a translucent intruder just a few inches long.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Scientists have identified what they believe is the largest octopus ever seen, a four-meter- (13-foot-) long giant hauled from the depths near New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands.

Fishing industry figures and environment groups will tomorrow seek Federal Government support for the protection of Patagonian toothfish under the global endangered species agreement.

Swimmers might soon be able to exact the ultimate revenge on stingers thanks to a seafood industry push to put jellyfish on the dinner table.

Sharks have long been demonised. Many people regard them as malicious man-eaters and believe the best shark is a dead shark.

TOKYO — Japan plans to resume importing whale meat for the first time in 11 years, buying minke whale flesh from Norway in a show of solidarity with the Scandinavian nation's hunting policy, an official said Wednesday.

TOKYO — Japan plans to double its whale catch in the northwest Pacific and begin hunting a type of whale it has left alone for years, a government official said Thursday, rebuffing international criticism.