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marine life

brittle star

Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

Some brittlestars, close relatives of starfish and sea urchins, can work out where light is coming from by changing the colour of their bodies

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Puffadder Shyshark

Life

As our oceans become more acidic they may corrode the skins of sharks

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Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

Life

Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

Features

A close-up of the 3D printed reconstruction of a female Denisovan,

Life

AI genome scanner says Denisovans could live until 38 years old

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Exploring the deep ocean and the surprising creatures that live there

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Exploring the deep ocean and the surprising creatures that live there

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Geraint Lewis at 51¶¯Âþ Live 2019

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The search for aliens: Is anybody out there?

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Imagined Mars settlement

Space

Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

Insight

Inflatible green Aliens standing in line

Life

Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

Features

mammoth skeleton in museum

Life

Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it – or even reverse it?

Features

killifish

Life

Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells

Predators are a problem for Trinidad’s killifish: in streams where the problem is worst the killifish grow more brain cells, perhaps to help evade the hunters

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When will we hear from aliens? We may already have done so

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The problem with plastic - and how science can solve it

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How to solve our plastic waste problem

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Life on Mars: Could we build a home on the Red Planet?

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