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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

The discovery that the Krebs cycle, which is essential for life, can occur in the absence of enzymes suggests that life’s origins were surprisingly humble

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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

Features

A turtle's eye

Life

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

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Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

Life

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

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Some of the turfwinkle snails in their natural habitat

Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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A vaquita caught in a net

Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

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Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

Life

Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

These teensy crustaceans tear one anemone into two, splitting them into identical pairs that then grow as new, living pom-poms on their claws

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Life

New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw

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Life

Whale sharks' secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones

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Life

Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand

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Life

Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales

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