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A snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) at night

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Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws

Snapping shrimps seem immune to the shock waves their claws produce to kill or stun other animals – and it is all thanks to their head gear

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3 How Do We Sense Time? Mechanical brain, conceptual image. Composite image of coloured medical imagery of a human brain and skull, with cogs and gears representing concepts such as memory, time and mechanical brains. The imagery includes 3D computed tomography (CT) scans of the skull and 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. The scans are of a 30-year-old woman.

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How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

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Posidonia australis

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Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

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A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

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A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

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Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, Alonissos Island, GreeceMonk seal, Monachus monachus, which enters and swims in the sea. Endangered species. Alonissos Island, Sporades Islands, Greece (Photo by Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

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A dolphin with a fungal infection on its dorsal fin

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Rubbing against coral seems to be a popular skin treatment in dolphins

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Vaquita or Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena sinus), caught as by-catch, Baja California, Mexico, critically endangered species

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Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

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Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

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Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

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200 million year old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea only occasionally into shallower water.

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Ichthyosaur tooth from the Swiss Alps is largest ever discovered

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How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

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How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

From deep-sea mining to industrial-scale fishing, human activities in the oceans are expanding massively in a realm where few rules apply. Only now are we grappling with how to regulate the rush to plunder the seas

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Anchovies stirring up the sea may be influencing ocean mixing

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Jim Al-Khalili: How to live a more rational, scientific life

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Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

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Nanoparticles can translate chemical signals from bacteria to yeast

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