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Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat their livers

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a trick to flip them over, paralise them and get at their energy-rich livers

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Space

Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is a comet, not aliens

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The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water

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'Sword Dragon' ichthyosaur had enormous eyes and a lethal snout

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Spurilla neapolitana. A 'groundbreaking' sea slug discovery has been made - in a UK first. The nudibranch Spurilla neapolitana, typically found in much warmer climates, has been discovered in Cornwall. The colourful sea slug is a usual resident in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and along the western Atlantic. Until now, its most northerly sighting was in Brest, France, in August 2025.

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See the alien-looking sea slug spotted in UK waters for the first time

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2YP7KC6 Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents Mid-Pacific, Deep sea exploration 2025. Deep-sea mining, Deep Ocean Volcanoes

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Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

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Anonymous (Peruvian). 'Stirrup Vessel in the Form of a Lobster,' AD 4th-6th century. ceramic. Walters Art Museum (2009.20.55): Gift of John Bourne, 2009.

Life

Fascinating artistic depictions of sea life over millennia

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Marine tube worms in the deep-sea environment

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How life thrives in one of the most hostile environments on Earth

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Water might be even more important for alien life than we thought

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Protocells self-assembling on micrometeorites hint at origins of life

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells form could tell us something about the chances of life elsewhere

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51¶¯Âþ recommends Phoebe Waller-Bridge's documentary Octopus!

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Stellar flares may hamper search for life in promising star system

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Life

How symbiosis made Earth what it is – and why it’s key to our future

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Why are the physical constants of the universe so perfect for life?

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