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marine life

crab claw

Life

Feel the pinch: A pioneer of science photography does crab claws

Jean Painlevé was using films and stills to share his passion for marine life with French audiences long before David Attenborough's TV documentaries

Regulars

sawfish

Life

Sawfish's fearsome snout evolved to be undetectable to prey

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guppies

Life

Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates

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space cartoon

Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

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Artists impression of an alien skyscape with nearby planets large in the sky

Space

TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

Earth

Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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NASA image of planet

Earth

Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton?

Insight

Extinct squid relative

Life

Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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TRAPPIST-1 seen from one of its 7 planets

Space

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water

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octopus

Life

The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

Ladies weren’t supposed to do experiments out at sea. That didn’t stop Jeanne Villepreux-Power from solving an ancient mystery about the argonaut's shell

Features

Life

Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

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