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Ancient marine life

Life

Huge mega-rafts carried dinosaur-era animals on round-the-world trips

Floating logs over 10 metres long were the basis for miniature ecosystems that carried marine creatures all over the world during the Jurassic era

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grazing fish

Life

Reef halo riddle: What's behind the mysterious rings around coral?

Features

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Space

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Features

oil spill

Environment

From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black

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Curiosity rovr

Space

Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars

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A cow standing in a field

Life

We could soon make animals with cells that contain two genetic codes

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Kepler-452b

Space

We’ve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life

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sharks

Life

Don't miss: Shark crime, optical games and dairy in the cross hairs

Culture

Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach

Earth

Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach

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vaquita

Environment

World's most endangered marine mammal is now down to 10 animals

The vaquita, a small porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California, is closer to extinction than ever before despite conservation efforts to save the species

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Life

Flower hat jelly has colour-tipped tentacles for paralysing small fish

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Life

Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India

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Technology

China plans world's first deep sea base, complete with robot subs

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Life

Squid teeth could help make bioplastics and self-repairing clothes

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