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https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/mineral-laden-water-emerging-hydrothermal-vent Mineral-laden water emerging from a hydrothermal vent on the Niua underwater volcano in the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific Ocean. As the water cools, minerals precipitate to form tower-like ?chimneys.? Image taken during 2016 cruise ?Virtual Vents.?

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The mysterious underwater avalanches reshaping Earth

Turbidity currents are cascades of sediment that tumble down Earth’s 9000 submarine canyons carrying carbon, plastics and pharmaceuticals into the deep sea. We are finally learning just how often these dramatic events occur.

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Crabs and lobsters on a beach

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Crab deaths on UK coast may be caused by unknown disease, finds report

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Screenshot of livestream of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow nesting in a pine tree in California. Credit: Friends of Big Bear Valley

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Watch rare livestream of bald eagles nesting on eggs in California

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common starfish, common European seastar (Asterias rubens), at an underwater plant, view from above - Image ID: 2M0FA0C (RM)

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Marine heatwaves could wipe out all common sea stars by 2100

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Illustration of a group of ichthyosaurs

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Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as an ancient nursery

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H60RX2 Deck and Turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from Bow, James River, Virginia, by James F. Gibson, July 1862

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How a US civil war shipwreck became a template for marine conservation

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Frontal side view of the head of a juvenile Carpet-, or Diamond python, a species occurring throughout most of Australia; Shutterstock ID 696146398; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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��è��Ƶs finally found the clitoris on snakes – and there are two

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Pair of vaquita sighted during 2008 survey in Gulf of California

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Mexico’s latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

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Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) Credit: Jens Rydell

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Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl

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Cymatioa cooki

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Tiny clam that was thought to be extinct found alive

The only evidence of a species of centimetre-long white clam was a fossil collected 85 years ago, until a researcher stumbled upon one living on the shores near Santa Barbara, California

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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in the North Sea

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Erect-crested penguins always reject their first egg and lay another

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Dredging in crucial habitat sparks row over UK marine protected areas

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