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Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, Alonissos Island, GreeceMonk seal, Monachus monachus, which enters and swims in the sea. Endangered species. Alonissos Island, Sporades Islands, Greece (Photo by Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

Populations of Mediterranean monk seals began shrinking when seafaring civilisations expanded around the Mediterranean basin

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A dolphin with a fungal infection on its dorsal fin

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Rubbing against coral seems to be a popular skin treatment in dolphins

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200 million year old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea only occasionally into shallower water.

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Ichthyosaur tooth from the Swiss Alps is largest ever discovered

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Jim Al-Khalili portrait

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Jim Al-Khalili: How to live a more rational, scientific life

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A cluster of deep sea octopus Muusoctopus robustus at Davidson Seamount, off California.

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Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

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E. coli bacterium. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of an Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacterium in the early stages of binary fission, the process by which the bacterium divides. This Gram-negative bacillus (rod-shaped) bacterium normally inhabits the human intestines. Under certain conditions it may undergo rapid division, which increases its numbers to such an extent that it causes infection. E. coli cause 80% of all urinary tract infections, travellers' diarrhoea and gastroenteritis in children. The hair-like appendages around the bacterium are pili, structures used for bacterial conjugation. Magnification: x17,500 at 6x7cm size.

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Nanoparticles can translate chemical signals from bacteria to yeast

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CT2DTA Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, Caribbean Sea, Dominica

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51¶¯Âþs want to restore the oceans with artificial whale poo

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DNA computer

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DNA computer could tell you if your drinking water is contaminated

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RoboKrill

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RoboKrill is a one-legged robot that mimics the way krill swim

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Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and fluorescent light

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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother

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Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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