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marine biology

Hot water drilling

Environment

Remarkable trove of species found living beneath Antarctic ice shelf

The variety of species found below an Antarctic ice shelf shows that life can survive in hostile, food-poor environments for thousands of years

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Mother and daughter

Humans

Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother

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A field of manganese nodules in deep-sea waters near Hawaii.

Environment

Race to start commercial deep-sea mining puts ecosystems at risk

Analysis

A humpback whale

Life

Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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Bacillus subtilis

Health

Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells

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A sea cucumber, Chiridota heheva

Life

Sea cucumber has modified genes to help it live on hydrothermal vents

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Mother and baby Antarctic Fur seals

Life

Antarctic seal numbers rose and fell with climate over 50,000 years

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The leaves and flowers of catnip

Life

We can now bioengineer catnip instead of extracting it from plants

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a lone female ostracod Photeros annecohenae (Anne's sea firefly) releasing bioluminescence. This photo was taken by Elliot Lowndes (https://mrlowndes.com) in our lab, and he should be credited upon use of this photo. This is a composite photo, combining the animal itself and its bioluminescence, taken separately

Life

Sea fireflies adapted their threatening glow to attract mates

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A grenadier fish swimming along the sea floor near an anemone

Life

A glimpse at Greenland's deep-sea ecosystems threatened by fishing

Halibut fishing off the coast of Greenland uses heavy equipment dragged along the sea floor, which can cause irreversible harm to slow-growing anemones and coral

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Life

Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods

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Life

Artificially stripped-back cell is still able to rapidly evolve

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Video

Inside the fight to stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas

Video

Environment

Inside the fight to stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas

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