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sea creatures

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

Environment

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

Farmed Atlantic salmon make the local wild salmon population weaker. Making them sterile could work – but there’s a catch

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Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

Life

Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

Culture

A robotic grabber prepares to grab a squid

Technology

Robotic grabber catches squidgy deep sea animals without harming them

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Explore nature’s dark side with the Natural History Museum

Environment

Explore nature’s dark side with the Natural History Museum

Culture

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

Earth

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

Life

Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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Members of the European Parliament, including German co-president of the Greens parliamentary group, Ska Keller (C), take part in a voting session on the 'Conservation of fishery resources and protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures' at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 16, 2018

Earth

Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

Comment

Oysters

Life

Oysters can ‘hear’ the ocean even though they don’t have ears

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Box jellyfish will destroy future oceans by gobbling up the food

Life

Box jellyfish will destroy future oceans by gobbling up the food

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Marine zooplankton

Earth

Oil-exploration airguns punch 2-kilometre-wide holes in plankton

The seismic airguns used to look for undersea oil don’t just disrupt marine mammals, their shock waves also kill and disperse the plankton population

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Life

Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it

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Life

Tiny fish’s venom makes predators zone out and release them

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Life

Giant octopus wears jellyfish cape after it devours its owner

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Life

Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees

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