If University of Washington scientist Kristi Morgansen’s work pans out, a school of cooperatively communicating robot fish could help track whales, pollution slicks, or other mobile targets of scientific interest.  Over the past five years, she has built three “Robofish” that communicate with one another underwater.

The Robofish use low-frequency sonar to communicate with each other.  [...]

Two marine species made the Arizona State University’s annual “Top 10″ list of lifeforms discovered or identified during the past year.  The “ornate sleeper ray,” Electrolux addisoni, a new genus and species, is the largest known member of the electric ray family Narkidae.  A new species of the dangerous box jellyfish genus Malo, Malo kingi, [...]

It’s possible that you saw a news story about it, but probably not. There was, undoubtedly, some Hollywood starlet going in or out of rehab, or throwing a public tantrum somewhere — a story which the news media decided HAD to be covered because of its profound importance to the future of humanity. [...]