With coral reefs and sinkholes, shipwrecks and submerged hotels, the sea is brimming with scenery that even landlubbers will ...

The ocean’s vast blue expanse hides countless secrets ... For example, when confronted by damselfish, it will extend six arms to mimic the banded sea snake, the damselfish’s natural predator. This ...

The ocean’s vast blue expanse hides countless secrets ... For example, when confronted by damselfish, it will extend six arms to mimic the banded sea snake, the damselfish’s natural predator. This ...

I have also noted that Manuk is home to one of the world’s largest colonies of a sea snake species, the very venomous black-banded sea krait ... in the sparkling blue water.

Silvery-blue with dark bands, one of the world’s most venomous snakes, found in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Glossy olive or purple-brown, aggressive when provoked, found in coral reefs around ...

Unlike strictly aquatic sea snakes, the black-banded sea krait is semi-terrestrial ... patterned snakes vary in color from dark blue to bluish-gray and have wide black bands on them.

For this mother eagle, mealtime means turning to the water for a tasty snake treat. The video begins with the mother eagle scanning the environment for potential prey. A banded sea snake ...

Banded sea kraits are large sea-dwelling snakes known to primarily inhabit tropical to temperate latitudes in the Eastern Indian and Pacific Oceans (archived link). The increasing frequency of the ...

There’s still much to learn about how snakes are achieving such deep dives, but part of the answer may lie in findings published by Alessandro in 2019. His micro-CT (3D imaging that uses X-rays to see ...

Some species are known to stay underwater for three and a half hours on end. Neither possess gills — but in 2019, researchers learned the blue-banded sea snake (a "true" species) uses intricate blood ...

Neither possess gills — but in 2019, researchers learned the blue-banded sea snake (a "true" species) uses intricate blood vessels on its head to pull oxygen straight out of the water.