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marine life

Mollusc sees the world through hundreds of eyes made out of rock

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Mollusc sees the world through hundreds of eyes made out of rock

Its mineral eyes work just like ours and help the creature see predators – but how its small brains process its rock-hard vision is still a mystery

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The first fish seen leaping out of water to attack prey from air

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The first fish seen leaping out of water to attack prey from air

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Free-diver enlisted to help tag twitchy hammerhead sharks

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Free-diver enlisted to help tag twitchy hammerhead sharks

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World's most elusive shark found and tagged for the first time

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World's most elusive shark found and tagged for the first time

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Ocean’s hidden green plankton revealed by fixing glitch in model

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Ocean’s hidden green plankton revealed by fixing glitch in model

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A queen conch, with a bluish exterior to its shell, and the interior curving out in a rich orangey colour. Two eyes on black and white stalks peep out

Earth

Endangered alien-like conch could be saved by stomach guest

Regulars

Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed

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Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed

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Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

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Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

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Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

Life

Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

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Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

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Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

The search for vital signs of life in the atmospheres of other planets has taken a new turn with a vast library of biosignatures that could help us detect ET

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Life

Nuclear apocalypse or nanotech invasions could reveal alien life

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Life

'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast

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Life

Two dolphin species band together to form unprecedented alliance

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$100m project uses world's best radio telescopes to find aliens

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