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Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell
Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.
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Pacific coral reef shows historic increase in climate resistance
Coral reefs in one part of the Pacific Ocean have likely adjusted to higher ocean temperatures which could reduce future bleaching impacts of climate change, new research reveals.
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Scientists had a 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale named Twain
In an unprecedented encounter, a research team successfully engaged in a "conversation" with a humpback whale named Twain.
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A whale's life story is recorded in its ear wax - NBC News.com
The "earplugs" of blue whales are preserved in their skulls throughout their lives, and keep a record of chemical changes in the animals' bodies.
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The ocean is broken: "After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead"
A Newcastle sailor's trip across the Pacific Ocean after the Japan tsunami was frighteningly similar to a nightmare.
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If All The Ice Melted (Interactive)
Explore the world’s new coastlines if sea level rises 216 feet.
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Why Does the Seahorse Have Its Odd Head? Mystery Solved
For the seahorse, the shape of its head, along with its stealthy approach and lightening speed, literally makes a meal of some of the ocean’s most sought after prey: the copepod, according to a new study.
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The Bizarre, Beautiful, Fascinating World Beneath Antarctic Ice
Rob Robbins and Steve Rupp have been diving under the Antarctic sea ice for a combined 60 years. Hang around their dive headquarters at McMurdo Station and you’ll see rows of oxygen tanks, wetsuits, and breathing apparatus.
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Why Does the Seahorse Have Its Odd Head?
The shape of the seahorse's head helps it sneak up on copepods without being noticed, a new study says.
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Seahorses Are Actually The Deadly Stealth Ninjas Of The Sea
A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota revealed that the very traits which make the seahorse so laughable - like its’ slow movements and weird shape – are actually what makes it so cunning.
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New species of terrifying looking 'skeleton shrimp' discovered
It’s a truism that the ocean depths will remain Earth’s last great wilderness, and judging by the recent find of a new species of 'skeleton shrimp' there’s still a lot of eye-popping discoveries yet to be made.
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The starfish are dying, and no one knows why
Something is killing starfish up and down the West Coast and no one knows what. A mysterious illness that first appeared in June in Washington state has now spread from Sitka, Alaska, to San Diego. Starfish first waste away and then "turn into goo," divers say. Whatever is causing it can spread with astonishing speed — a healthy group of starfish can die in just 24 hours.
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'Pufferfish on Steroids' Gets as Big as a Truck
The bizarre ocean sunfish is the world’s biggest bony fish. The Germans call it “the swimming head,” the Chinese “the toppled car fish,” and taxonomists Mola mola — which, ironically enough for something that floats, is Latin for “millstone.” And unlike Nemo’s compatriots, it is beautifully adapted to the high seas.
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Migaloo, the only documented albino Humpback whale
He resides near the Australian coast and may have cancer due to the lack of protection from the sun.
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Overfishing doesn’t just shrink fish populations—they often don’t recover afterwards
Thanks to surging demand for seafood and woefully inaccurate catch reporting, overfishing is out of control. And new research now argues (paywall) that it’s a problem that, in many ecosystems, might be permanent. By removing one of its species, overfishing “flips” an ecosystem into an “alternative state”. It set’s off a complex reshuffling among remaining species. Often, this “locks” the ecosystem into a “alternative stable state”—meaning, the species of fish can’t come back.
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Biologist pleads guilty to feeding killer whales in Monterey Bay
A prominent marine biologist was fined $12,500 and placed on three years probation for feeding killer whales in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
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A seahorse inspecting a diver's watch
Or maybe he's just using it as a mirror to check himself out.
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The Darwin Fish Climbed Onto Land, Left Us With Great Hearing
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. A century-old mystery about how ancient freshwater fishes breathe has finally been put to rest, thanks to a study published last week in Nature Communications by a team of ichthyologists and me. The fishes in question—Polypterus and related species—have tiny holes in the...
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Denmark ‘Fairy Rings’ Explained? Mysterious Baltic Sea Circles Not As ‘Alien’ As People Think
While Earth is full of little mysteries, here’s one unexplained phenomenon we can cross off the list: Biologists in Denmark have come up with a scientific reason for the strange “fairy rings” found in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea.
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Amazing New Tropical Fish Species Discovered in Indian Ocean
A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean.
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