A swimmer was enjoying in the Gold Coast of Australia. May be thinking to show his bravado, the man dived on the top of the two-meter stingray present in the shallow water.

A mysterious creature is what scientists believe to be blamed for brutally killing a 2.7m great white shark. The killing of the shark took place 11 years ago off Australia's coast and its news attracted filmmaker David Riggs to make a documentary on it.

The approval for the state government's proposal for drum line program will lead to loss of up to 120 tons of tiger sharks over next three years, according to estimates printed in the Department of Premier and Cabinet's public environmental review.

The Climate Council's latest report, 'Seasonal Update: Abnormal Autumn 2014', tries to explain climate change being witnessed in Australia. The nation has witnessed harsh summer and a really warm autumn.

Even then, researchers are saying Australia may not have any respite and global temperatures would continue to increase. All credit for the same goes to the climate change.

Alex Duncan from Curtin University's Centre for Marine Science and Technology has said one signal has been detected on several receivers, which is likely to be related to the crashed Malaysian airliner MH370. Duncan told CNN, "Researchers are studying a very low frequency sound to see if it was the impact of the aircraft on the surface of the water.

Researchers of a new study have revealed why Antarctica is not warming up to the level of other continents and why southern Australia is witnessing more droughts.

Medical research has received generous funding from this year's federal budget while cuts have been made in the budget of CSRIO and other science agencies.

Quite a contrasting situation was seen and experts commented on the funding cuts for science as a lack of strategic vision. It is great that the government has promised to increase the funding by double the current amount for NHMRC.

As the name of the species suggests, a megamouth shark is quite a rare sighting. But group of Japanese fishermen were able to caught Megamouth shark off the coast of Japan from a depth of around 800m.