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With its gaping mouth, needle-sharp teeth, and slightly startled expression, the black sea devil anglerfish seems tailor-made for the spotlight. And...
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When pup 681 (later known as Luna) first arrived at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, she wasn’t able to use her paws to eat, and the animal care team had to...
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Prime Minister, John Key has announced that a large area of New Zealand's exclusive economic zone will be turned one of the world's largest ocean...
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Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk or byssus, which comes from a...
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A hotspot of ocean life has been discovered off the southernmost tip of mainland Australia, hiding on the sea floor hundreds of feet below the...
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Octopuses are aliens — or, at least, so vastly different in their genetic makeup that they might as well be considered out of this world. Scientists...
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To look for aliens, most people peer towards the sky. But if you look down, you'll discover they already live among us. These aliens have brains,...
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A new species of fish that researchers describe as being “downright scary looking” has just been discovered in the deep sea. The new anglerfish,...
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A schoolboy who stumbled across a new species of box jellyfish in a Gold Coast canal has been rewarded for his curiosity, with scientists naming the...
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For millions of years, reptiles dominated the Earth. Many that dwelled on land were dinosaurs. But no dinos swam in the seas. The oceans had their...
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