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Hitchin' a ride: Brittle star gets a lift on larger starfish

This unusual embrace was spotted in the warm, shallow waters of the Solomon Islands – but once the tiddler grows it will swamp its transport

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The Allen Telescope Array

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SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens

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Glass invertebrates reveal the plight of modern oceans

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Deepwater shark moving into attack position

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Never-before-seen life spotted by Hawaiian deep-sea expedition

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Aquatic plant that feeds like a Venus flytrap faces extinction

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Aquatic plant that feeds like a Venus flytrap faces extinction

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How are baby eels made? We still don't know

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Illustration showing whale and person in white coat with microscope

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The enigmatic whale we can hear – but have never seen

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Snapping shrimps make less noise in acidifying oceans

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Snapping shrimps make less noise in acidifying oceans

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snapper spawn

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Mass of spawning fish make a milky way on a coral reef

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Three long-finned pilot whales underwater. They look mid-size, for a whale, and have stubby noses. Their fins do look quite long, and curvy

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Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects

Could we speak whale one day? A whale song algorithm can pick up their different dialects and could help work out how they communicate with one another

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Squid filmed using their ink clouds as smokescreen to catch prey

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Sea butterflies fly underwater just like insects do in the air

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First video footage of seal drowning and eating a pup

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White shark's diet may include biggest fish of all: whale shark

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