An ultra-realistic robotic dolphin developed by Edge Innovations (who developed the animatronics for Free Willy, Anaconda, and The Abyss) aims to replace some of the 3,000 actual dolphins in captivity at marine parks and dolphin experiences. Some more info while I’m sad about my captive dolphin friends, but also a

This is a video of a diver playing tug-o-war with an octopus off the coast of Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France over the diver’s GoPro and tripod. Clearly, the octopus tried to invoke the law of finders keepers, but the diver wasn’t having it, and, after a fairly intense battle of tug-o-war, the

This is a video from a vacationer on Useppa Island, Florida who found a squid on the dock he believes was dropped by one of the ospreys nesting nearby, and captured this footage of its color-changing chromatophores before returning it to the ocean. Pretty wild, right? I wish I could

This is a video of 11-month old Quake wearing a shark fin and going buck-wild in an above-ground pool. Some more info while I try to convince one of my dogs to come out from under the bed and give me kissies: “Quake is an eleven-month-old pitbull mix. He wandered

Note: Keep your volume in check, my dogs still went crazy. This is a video from a group of scuba divers in the Bahamas as they repeatedly get pinged by a nearby Arleigh Burke-class destroyer’s sonar. That doesn’t sound like a very pleasant experience. And imagine how the mermaids must