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marine life

sawfish

Life

Sawfish's fearsome snout evolved to be undetectable to prey

The snout of the elusive sawfish doesn’t make vibrations that prey fish can detect as it swims – just like a wind turbine blade through air

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guppies

Life

Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates

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space cartoon

Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

Comment

Artists impression of an alien skyscape with nearby planets large in the sky

Space

TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

Earth

Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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NASA image of planet

Earth

Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton?

Insight

Extinct squid relative

Life

Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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TRAPPIST-1 seen from one of its 7 planets

Space

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water

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octopus

Life

The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

Features

A turtle's eye

Life

Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

Green turtles on the Great Barrier Reef have developed a strange eye disease, which could be a result of a recent herpes outbreak or high levels of cobalt

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Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

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Life

Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

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