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marine biology

Life

New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together

Parts from dozens of different individual comb jellies have been fused together to create strange new animals unlike anything seen before

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Life

Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

Life

Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

Life

Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Heart cockle shells

Life

Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

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World's largest coral discovered by accident

Environment

World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

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Health

Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

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P1MNB3 The spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) is a species of viper endemic to western Iran which was described in 2006. The head look

Life

Richard Dawkins's latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box

Culture

Life

Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

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A shark survived being stabbed through the head by a swordfish

Life

A shark survived being stabbed through the head by a swordfish

Fishers in Albania caught a blue shark with an 18-centimetre fragment of swordfish bill embedded in its skull, in the first known case of a shark surviving such an injury

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Environment

Here's how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidic oceans

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Life

Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey

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Technology

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

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Life

Sharks leap out of the water more often than you might think

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