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Marine biologists have long been mystified as to why mantis shrimp, otherwise known as stomatopod crustaceans, boast up to 12 different types of...
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Fish have the genetic machinery necessary to make fingers, but it is not switched on, a study suggests. The research in Plos Biology journal sheds...
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Using a camera-equipped robot to explore beneath the Ross Ice Shelf off Antarctica, scientists and engineers with the Antarctic Geological Drilling (...
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If you’re looking for a good fright, forget about going to see a horror movie or wandering through a cemetery in the middle of the night. Just flip...
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Last Friday our volunteer Andy brought a young Conger Eel (Conger verreauxi), or ngoio in te reo Maori, to the Bait House Aquarium for our...

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28 Jan 2014
Wellington's south coast could witness the march of the crayfish, as they swell in numbers and crawl out of the sea to seek new food sources. New...
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Geneticists Wednesday said they had sequenced the genome of the elephant shark — revealing much about the evolution of vertebrates. The shark, which...
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Ozymandias the ''precocious'' octopus is a record-breaker after being possibly the first of his species to open a jar in under a minute.
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22 Jan 2014
A recent study by the American Museum of Natural History has found that there are over 180 species of fish with biofluorescence. The light emitted by...
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A pair of conjoined gray whale twins found washed up on the banks of a Baja California lagoon, are likely the first documented case of conjoined gray...
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