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Australian scientists have been left stumped by the discovery of what appears to be a new species of lion’s-mane jellyfish, that washed ashore on a...
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Brian Skerry's story behind this photo. "A few years ago, I was in New Zealand photographing a story about the value of marine reserves (a type of...
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Seahorses look like sweet, silent types, but high tech recording equipment finds that they growl when they are angry. The discovery adds to growing...
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Mother of the Year in the animal kingdom could go to a deep sea octopus who spent at least four and one half years fearlessly guarding and caring for...
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One of our very beautiful female Carpet Sharks has laid a truly unusual number of eggs.   Over the last month she has produced 8 new...

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25 Aug 2014
Giant squid live up to their name: the largest giant squid ever recorded by scientists was almost 43 feet (13 meters) long, and may have weighed...
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This bizarre new copepod, Ceratonotus steiningeri, was first discovered 5,400 metres deep in the Angola Basin in 2006. Within a year it was also...
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Deep down in the ocean, far below where most humans have gone, there’s an unexplored world of glowing sea creatures and mysterious environments that...
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MIT is making progress researching common bacterium with the potential to revolutionize the biofuels industry. A microorganism called Prochlorococcus...
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Millions of tons. That’s how much plastic should be floating in the world’s oceans, given our ubiquitous use of the stuff. But a new study finds that...
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