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In honour of Father's Day, experience a 3 for the price of 2 Discover Scuba Diving adventure!From Friday 17 June to Sunday 19 June 2022, you can book three PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experiences at ...

You can tell a lot about sharks simply by looking at their teeth – revealing their diets and, by extension, their lifestyles. While public perception about sharks is often quite negative, with their t...

There are only seven species of sea turtles on Earth, and all of them except two visit South Africa. Sadly, all five of the species that occur in South African waters appear on the IUCN Red List of Th...

We've teamed up with Consol Glass to celebrate World Turtle Day on 23 May 2022 with a pop-up exhibit activation in the Aquarium. The temporary exhibit will be open from Friday 20 May to Tuesday 24 May...

A rare event was recently spotted in the cool waters of Cape Town - a massive ocean sunfish (Mola mola) leaping completely out of the water! You might have already seen it - photographs by Aly Ison ha...

We are so happy to announce that Saving Seals, the short film by local wildlife photographer and conservation ambassador Steve Benjamin of Animal Ocean, won the Grand Prix Award at the International T...

Meet the black musselcracker, one of the most iconic species in our I&J Ocean Exhibit, and one of the fish most often commented on by our visitors. "Look at its big nose!" "It looks so grumpy!" "I...

Guest writer Keren Spyker joined outreach teacher Thabo on a visit to Kleinberg Primary School with the Oceans in Motion mobile aquarium classroom. The Oceans in Motion outreach programme brought an a...

Here's all the information you need to know about giant squids in South Africa. When you think "giant squids", you probably envisage huge, ship-capsizing krakens and bizarre sea monsters. Although thi...

Warning: High risk of controversy and/or cuteness. The world's penguins are a diverse and interesting bunch. Part of that diversity is the range of species - but where the species line is drawn is dif...

Cape Town is currently the reigning champion of the City Nature Challenge, an international competition where everyday citizens try to take as many photos as possible of different species and upload t...

The Tara ocean laboratory ship is stopping in Cape Town's V&A Waterfront on its 70 000 kilometre voyage to research the ocean microbiome, climate change and pollution connecting Europe, Africa, So...