The Latest Breaking News from Shark Bay

A 77-square-mile seagrass meadow at the bottom of Shark Bay in Western Australia is both Earth's largest plant and largest clone.

As humans, we grow up playing with other children. Animals of many species likewise play with their peers. But why?

Tao Hoogland was diving with his friend Joseph at Shark Bay, Western Australia, on Friday when suddenly they were just inches away from a hungry and aggressive shark

Male dolphins in Shark Bay are banding together and using synchronised song and dance to attract a mate, international marine scientists say.

The seagrass is 111 miles long and thought to be around 4,500 years old

Next time you go diving or snorkelling, have a close look at those wondrously long, bright green ribbons, waving with the ebb and flow of water. They are seagrasses – marine plants which produce flowers, fruit, and seedlings annually, like their land-based relatives.

Genetic tests have revealed that a seagrass meadow in WA's Shark Bay is actually a giant clone of itself, and is estimated to be at least 4,500 years old.

Genetic testing has determined a single 4,500-year-old seagrass may have spread over 200 sq km of underwater seafloor – about 20,000 football fields

The world’s largest plant has been found in Western Australia’s Shark Bay, covering hundreds of square kilometres with scientists ageing it at 4500 years old.